VioletZer0 posted...
The community unit was the norm for our society up until mass suburbanization shifted societies towards individual households where everyone is expected to manage their own problems in their own way.
This is an incredibly misleading statement, and utterly incorrect from certain points of view.
A lot of human history tended to revolve around extended family units, where you'd have parents, grandparents, an aunt or uncle or two, and kids living on the same land (if not the same house). And in many cases, those people would all be expected to work the same land to support themselves. And the expectation was that older, more experienced members of the family would provide advice and support to the younger members, while the younger members would provide labor and support to the older members once they were no longer able to support themselves (ie, having kids was essentially an investment in your own retirement, and a large part of why so many societies ingrained
HONOR YOUR PARENTS YOU LITTLE SHITS
into both societal and religious norms).
But that's not really the same thing as a modern communal unit mainly populated by people who aren't relatives who are commuting to jobs, and maintaining a strong social network regardless of whether or not they actually want one.
Being forced into what is essentially a hive against your will really isn't reflective of most of human history at all, even if a lot of science fiction writers believe it's going to be our inevitable future.