Modern Industrial Capitalism Is at War With Attachments

Modern industrial capitalism functions best when people can be packed up and transported to wherever the great industrial machine happens to need them at any given time. It's an obstacle to efficiency if people are too attached to a place. If your whole family, going back three generations and stretching out to the second and third cousins, all live in a forty mile radius, you're much less likely to just pack up your little nuclear family and move across the country for another job. This place into why those mediterranean countries see so much nepotism in both the public and private sectors.