This is actually a phenomenon which, according to Karl Polayni's Aristotle Discovers the Economy, roughly began in Greece shortly after the inventions of the alphabet and coinage which helped lay the framework for a more global economic system.
Traditionally tribal or "uncivilized" economies produced goods and services primarily for the local consumption of the clan, community, or family.
But soon after, production for consumption shifted to production for exchange as such societies became less "tribal" and more "civilized" via increasing literacy and "the market system".
With this phenomenon began the shift from the tribal values of family and community over the individual to civilized societies' value of the individual over the community.
Aristotle warned that this dynamic would destroy the autonomy and connectedness of the family and community and create a dangerous dependence on foreign goods.