make a commitment

The difficulties presented by the competing interests of the group versus the individual, corporate personhood verses natural persons, benefit to society versus family --- these represent the difficulties of trying to find parity between considerations representing a step in logical type as Gregory Bateson might put it, or fair distribution of effort v benefit between the individual and the group as Rawls or Bentham might put it.
This difficulty is present actually in a great number of human endeavors. Not just in finance or law but in the sciences and all other pursuits there is present a continual paradigm struggle between the good for me v the good for us.  Every common laborer for example at one time or another finds him or herself choosing between doing something for oneself and family or for the employer. This conflict rose to predominance with the rise of global market/employment based society.  For more and more families felt the absence of parents for the sake of being/working elsewhere compared to agrarian society, primarily, where whole families worked together on the farm and thus were in continual contact with each other. Urban life is predominantly in a fixed state alienation for the extended lack or permanent loss of family cohesion and shared purpose.  A mother and/or father often find themselves asking the other to choose between work or children and family and just what the definition of work is. What sort of duty is it, what calling does it answer to or what benefits or goals exactly fall within that category?
Thus, too, we so easily move across borders and exist out of touch with each other in state of defensive individualism.

How many of us can relate to some version of the following conversations:

"Oh gosh, pop, I missed your birthday? Where'd the time go!?"
"That's fine... just don't forget your mother on Mother's Day!"

or:

"Where are you going?"
"I'm on call remember?"
"What about your child Henry!?"
"I'm doing this for us Margaret. We talked about this already; we need the money!"
"Well Johnny needs you too!"

Sadly, until we learn to see that this conflict is the emotional price we pay for contemporary, corporatized urban --- yet very mobile --- and now highly device-oriented society, by default we will remain at odds with ourselves and less committal with each other.