I just read the Wikipedia social contract article and I think it describes our current situation to a tee. I have copied the WikiText here in case en.wiki is not reachable.

'''Social contract''' is a phrase used in [[sociology]] to denote an agreement within a group or community regarding the rights and responsibility of the group and its members to each other. All members within a society are assumed to agree to the terms of the social contract by their choice to stay within the society.

Most social contracts are informal and many are not well understood. In very dynamic or mobile societies the local [[consensus]] is often rapidly shifting as people move in and out of groups. Conflict often arises out different understandings of the local aggregate expectations as well as disagreement regarding appropriate rules of behavior and interaction. This can be very stressful for group members until new informal agreements have been informally negotiated between interacting members of the group, community, or society.

The term "social contract" was coined by [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], in his influential 1762 treatise The Social Contract.