Late Stage Capitalism

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10% of Americans have no close friends. The share who have no close friends rose from 3% in 1991 to 12% in 2021. The share who have 10 or more close friends has also fallen from 33% to 13%. (www.americansurveycenter.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

No it's not, there are lots of other reasons too, but there's so little focus in our culture or society about forming lasting friendships with people you like and respect, or hell just being decent people to each other.

I thought about the way we develop as children, where we're trained to go to school to prepare us for the capitalist machine, being forced to spend your time with other people that are also forced to be there. Then we're forced to work for survival and be around other people forced to work for survival. There isn't a chance for any meaningful relationships to form. That's not even talking about being a marginalized group because that's a whole different subject