ABSTRACT
The social isolation of working on an assembly line disrupted people's ability to interact with one another on a regular and continuous basis. Physical labor back on the farms may have been more grueling in terms of more hours worked and physical stamina required, but assembly lines introduced new forms of stress that threatened social mobility for reasons other than a simple lack of money. The social capital that formed, while not providing a great deal of social mobility, was very stable. Just as it is in all parts of the economy, it is the stability of our descending social-capital foundation that people will defend fiercely, despite its social mobility limitations. Far from feeling hatred or disregard for people, they were simply operating under the nineteenth-century Followership Agreements of agrarian life, along with their social mobility expectations. To the people who already adapted to technology in the early twenty-first century, achieving some degree of social mobility seems obvious.
