Miss Manners: Why isn’t assigned seating used more at dinner parties?

Miss Manners discusses the social benefits of assigned seating at dinner parties and the guest's responsibility to engage with others.
Yet the purpose of such meals is for people to mix, and it is a guest’s duty to make the effort.
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