Re:Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely
by landemva on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:43PM
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Walking, hiking, paddle boarding, skiing, biking on recreation paths all have existed for years. People can choose to do activities that have normal social interaction. Or not. Don't blame a particular economic system.
Life has choices.
Re:Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely
by Aicy on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:52AM
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It's funny that in your examples you entirely chose excercise.
The point is that it used to not be a choice. Most people were constantly socialising because their work involved lots of socialising, and their housing was shared with lots of people. Those things are a lot less prevalent than they used to be.
At school it's very easy to make friends not just because you're a kid or that you're choosing to socialise, but just by default you spend 6+ hours a day with the same people.
Re:Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely
by numtel on Monday February 06, 2023 @03:17AM
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I feel like the designs of our houses have a lot to do with this. Recently, I explored the idea the implications of larger houses:
https://gist.github.com/numtel/28ffb7181ad1a296a077db76c474b...
Given only ~25% of the US population exercises regularly, this bodes poorly for actively being social. I suspect we need to "artificially" engineer living conditions to push people together naturally.