If all you seek is comfort you’ll find it as you sit alone eating take out in a fully furnished apartment waiting to die. If what you want is community and to be present in the only life you have, you have to work hard to find it and maintain it.
And all of your sentences ought to have "I think that" at the beginning; while reading OPs message as a sign of victimhood instead of a statement of fact gives you the opportunity to sharpen your sense of self against it, it gives the appearance of signaling more than it gives actionable advice. otoh, if the former was your goal, I misread intent.
Hard to argue with the last line though. Many people become victims of society through their own inaction.
Everything from lost conversational ability, to decline in healthy dating, to the the proportion of consumption that is unhealthy social media, to loneliness, to internet addiction, to educational skill and reading comprehension, attention span, mental health.
Look at almost any graph of negative effect on society (10x if you look just at teenagers) and just about everything fell off a cliff beginning around 2012 or so with the rise of the smart phone. It's crazy how widespread it's effects have been.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
https://whn.global/scientific/covid19-immune-dysregulation/
https://whn.global/scientific/covid-effects-on-the-brain-a-s...
Stay safe out there.
Rapid inflation didn’t help, either. For those lucky enough to survive layoffs, they doubled down on work either dedicating more of their time or attempted to insulate their risk by becoming overemployed. Those who have time for friend outings may not feel as if they can afford the cost and those who have money for friend outings may not feel as if they can afford the time.
The rapid rise and acceptance of a remote workforce has led to fewer face-to-face interactions among coworkers. Social circles, that would be expanded by crossing different groups of your friends and acquaintances together, are dwindling due to both natural attrition and because people just see each other less often, weakening social bonds over time.
Then when we all get together despite all odds of us actually meeting up, gatherings kind of just devolve to a bunch of loosely connected people looking at our phones. It’s tragically ironic that the device we use for instant communication ended up putting distance between all of us.
I think we need to make more of an effort to spend time that is of sufficient quality with other people, even if that means our social norms need to change, e.g. phone usage when with others, actively reaching out, etc.