Loneliness is a serious public-health problem

Re:Loneliness is a serious public-health problem by didibus on Sunday September 09, 2018 @03:21AM (#17944774)

That seems to be cultural. I remember reading some study about it. Americans socialize through work, and make friends at work. Thus, work is their life. But in Europe for example, this wasn't the case. And thus they worked to live out their other activities, instead of living to work.

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Re:Loneliness is a serious public-health problem by joaomacp on Sunday September 09, 2018 @04:38AM (#17944983)

> they worked to live out their other activities, instead of living to work.

I'm from Europe, and I agree. Not everyone, but most people look at a job as just a means to a salary, regardless of what they do.

But I'm actually critical of this mindset: if you see things that way, then you are spending a great amount of your time doing something 'because you have to', slogging through the work day just to get to the stuff you like to do.

I know I'm generalizing, but I perceive Americans as more intense workers than Europeans. Maybe it's worse for their health, but look at what it's done to the world: space travel, computers, the internet, smartphones: all things that dominate the world (and are ultimately good, even though they have bad sides) and were made / greatly developed in America.

So hyper-capitalism isn't all that bad :)

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Re:Loneliness is a serious public-health problem by ntsplnkv2 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:33AM (#17945608)

Most Americans feel this way to. Most aren't working for NASA or doing meaningful work. They just need a paycheck, to pay for all the crap they bought on credit.

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