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This genealogy frames straitened times not as a single rupture but as an iterative failure mode: policy patches, market hacks, and cultural recalibrations that accumulate technical and moral debt. At the micro level, households optimize under constraints: portfolio shrinkage, skill repurposing, informal exchange. Behavioral repertoires shift toward redundancy minimization, reuse, and sociability reconfigured as reciprocity economies.