The way paid work is coming to be organized and rewarded in the new economy is inducing people to work longer and harder, and to sell themselves with ever-greater urgency. As a result, there is less room for families, which are being downsized and outsourced. Personal attention — once the province of spouses, parents, and the children of the elderly — is rapidly moving into the market economy, in which people receive the attention they can afford to buy. Ironically, the people who can't afford to buy it, or buy very much of it, are coming to include most of those who are selling it.
— Robert B. Reich, The Future of Success