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A comment on Study: Loneliness, Social Isolation Greater Health Problem in US Than Obesity. Parent comment

Re:Study: Loneliness, Social Isolation Greater Health Proble... by sjg007 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:00PM (#14944796)
Society says you need to pay money to not be lonely. It also says that anyone that wants to have a conversation with you in a coffee shop is crazy.
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Re:Study: Loneliness, Social Isolation Greater Health Proble... by ar-nelson on Monday August 07, 2017 @12:22AM (#14945289)
How, exactly, can you pay money to not be lonely? If it were that simple, this would be much less of a problem.
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Re:Study: Loneliness, Social Isolation Greater Health Proble... by lighttower on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:37AM (#14945539)
What the OP is saying is that marketing makes the impression that "IF I HAD {X} THEN I'D BE {NOT LONELY, HAPPY, LIKED, BEAUTIFUL, ETC}" where {x }is the set of items that you're actively feeling marketing pressure to buy.
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