<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Institutions enlarge human capability when they... > Institutions enlarge human capability when they allow strangers to coordinate knowledge, resources, and responsibility at scales friendship alone cannot support. The answer to impersonal systems is not permanent withdrawal. It is competent participation that carries human values into the machinery. **Source:** [[livestreams/The Human Being as Opportunity — Institutions, Human Capital, and Reclaiming the Self - Workbook|The Human Being as Opportunity — Institutions, Human Capital, and Reclaiming the Self]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Institutions enlarge human capability when they allow strangers to coordinate knowledge, resources, and responsibility at scales friendship alone cannot support. The answer to impersonal systems is not permanent withdrawal. It is competent participation that carries human values into the machinery.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-institutions-enlarge-human-human-values-machinery ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->