Atomizing a society politically can destroy the very institutions its economy requires.

Evidence

This is one of the basic dilemmas of socialist policy. Politically it needs to atomize society; economically, it needs autonomous institutions. The systematic atomization of society from above has interesting parallels, and contrasts, with elements of the traditional Muslim case. In Islam, the productive system contained no menace. It was the most docile element. It could be atomized without economic catastrophe. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2075

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s Luhmann/Hardin framework: political atomization removes the observability substrate while economic autonomy demands the trust that observability underwrites.