Graeber / Wengrow 408: "Caring labour [...] is about recognizing and understanding the unique qualities, needs and particularities of the cared-for--whether child or adult, animal or plant--in order to provide what they require to focus. Caring labour is distinguished by its particularity. If those institutions we today refer to as 'states' really do have any common features, one must certainly be a tendency to displace this caring impulse on to abstractions; today this is usually 'the nation,' however broadly or narrowly defined"