i had this weird job once, at a train station, and had to have training off this old scottish guy. it was like socratic dialogues. he said loads of things that have stuck with, but one of them was about how when he was a boy, if someone on the street needed ladders, they' come to his mum, cos she had the best and longest ladders. no one else bothered buying their own, they'd just borrow hers.
and if someone needed garden shears there was a bloke who had a pair, so you would go and as him.
then he said, in his strong scottish accent, that mrs thatcher came along and told everyone to fuck all that, and that we should all buy our own ladders and shears, so we've all done that, and now we own everything ourselves, and don't need to talk to our neighbours anymore.
i mean it's got a logic to it.