It seems obvious in retrospect because we’re living in a world defined by ubiquitous institutional collapse, but I don’t think there’s a work with more daily relevance to my life than Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Just living every day with this meme in my head:

One thing I’ve learned from long experience is if anybody with an ounce of administrative authority starts talking about how you’re all a team and a family then