Community

To develop in a given direction is to be a part of a community, as it is necessary to learn skills and take in resources to both develop and sustain oneself as one is. And when all is fraught, the modern world's cosmopolitan communities begin to contract and exclude, so that one's growth is predicated on the good will of the community itself. The efficacious individual - which though was a myth, did for all intents and purposes work for the powerful and privileged - is giving way to efficacious community. Feudalism becomes more clear in this light, and the trope comes to mind of the mafia member that "wants out" but can't necessarily leave all that easily.