And it makes for a sad country, too: divisions deepen, suspicion flourishes and the social contract frays.
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Though the social contract in America still holds, it has been substantially weakened and the understanding has changed.
This requires a reinvention of the social contract around security and benefits.
"The social contract between companies and workers was broken with the recession of the early 1990s, " says Susan Ascher, a Roseland, N.
Each of the three parties creators, publishers and consumers knew they needed the other two, so the social contract was clear and widely supported.
The social contract between the people and the government is that the society becomes apolitical while the government provide economic growth and calm.
Since then, with the confluence of computers, increased trade and weakened unions, the social contract has collapsed, and worker-employer matches have become harder to make.
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It is rare in American politics to arrive at a moment in which the debate revolves around the fundamental nature of American democracy and the social contract.
Worse, obsessed with the idea that globalisation threatens the social contract in rich countries, Mr Rodrik almost forgets that both rich and poor countries stand to benefit enormously from trade.
First, note that this claim in effect rejects the entire basis of the social contract tradition, a tradition one might easily think that Jerry is defending and extending rather than rejecting.
It suggests that "state-funded schools which do not adopt some responsibility for the wider well-being of their neighbourhood may not be fulfilling the social contract that people might reasonably expect of them".
It has been called "anomic" because it is less about the desire to overthrow government than the willingness to withdraw from the social contract, to renege on your social obligations because you just do not think other parties are going to honour them.
Never in the course of human history have we had a greater opportunity to make our people healthier and wiser, to protect our planet from decay and abuse, to reap the benefits of free markets without abandoning the social contract and its concern for the common good.
Our political and civic institutions distribute goods and services, along with the income derived from those goods and services according to the contracts we negotiate at the individual level and the social contract we negotiate whenever we elect the people who we hope will serve our enlightened self-interest in governing the country.
Even as the old social contract between employers and workers fades, the new one is still unclear.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Generations to come cannot possibly have the same social contract as their parents or grandparents did.
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Consumers often face situations in which the law prohibits actions they would otherwise take and support for the old social contract is crumbling.
Thanks to all that downsizing, the old social contract job security in return for commitment has been breaking down, first in America and then in other countries.
Red Queen Sustainability is an inevitable outcome of business stepping away from the now defunct social contract between business and society.
Some media and blog commentators argue it has arrived too late for The Times to keep its social contract with readers to report the news "without fear or favor, " in a phrase embedded in Times lore.
But this list is different from the principles behind Britain's post-war social contract which embedded the idea of statutory responsibilities and individual rights.
Around this time last year the company announced its Innovators Patent Agreement, which detailed a contract between the social network and its employees saying that any of their work related patents will be used for defensive purposes only.
However, in providing 30 years of virtually uninterrupted economic growth, while simultaneously dismissing the importance of social rights, the government unwittingly signed onto its own form of social contract.
Further research will be needed to see how the risk and social-contract modules that govern psychopathy are actually controlled.
This is a breach of the basic liberal democratic social contract.
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The longer term solution would be to develop an appropriate social contract: conducting ourselves online under the same civilized behavioral norms that keep us from, say, stealing stuff from one another's homes even though we could probably get away with it.
"We have a definite social contract with the community, " says Jesseman, who acquired the company in 1985 and created an ESOP.
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