Why do some people sacrifice their income, freedom, or even their lives for strangers who can never repay them? Political scientist Margaret Levi unpacks the concept of "communities of fate" and reveals how institutional design determines whether collaboration produces solidarity or exploitation. Subscribe for more episodes on the science of real-world collaboration. Margaret Levi, director of Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and one of the most influential scholars of institutional governance, brings decades of research on labor unions, citizen-government relations, and organizational design to a conversation about what makes collaboration durable under pressure. Her central concept, the community of fate, describes groups where members willingly bear personal costs for the benefit of distant others they will never ...