Phyliss Dalmatian : Many of your comments are insightful, so this one surprises me.If you read the NYT, then surely you know that life is a lot more challenging than it used to be for a lot of people. We can't afford to live near work -- longstanding affordable-housing crisis, plus 40 years of wage stagnation -- so we lose about 15 hours/week to our commute.Or we earn so little that we work 6 days a week. Or we work only one job, but 50 long hours across 5 days bc bosses want to maximize profits so they understaff, and then we spend 1 - 1.5 days on chores and sleep catch-up -- not much time for socializing.Loneliness is epidemic because most of us are no longer rooted in a community, for reasons beyond our control and very much not of our choosing. I hope that you'll read these comments, open your mind and your heart, be less judgemental, and vote for left-of-center pols who will address everything the stems from our rigged-by-the-rich tax code (the housing crisis, lousy wages, inadequate public transportation, etc.) -- everything that makes Murka the worst developed democracy in the world, a third-world country in first-world clothing.

Phyliss Dalmatian : Many of your comments are insightful, so this one surprises me.If you read the NYT, then surely you know that life is a lot more challenging than it used to be for a lot of people. We can't afford to live near work -- longstanding affordable-housing crisis, plus 40 years of wage stagnation -- so we lose about 15 hours/week to our commute.Or we earn so little that we work 6 days a week. Or we work only one job, but 50 long hours across 5 days bc bosses want to maximize profits so they understaff, and then we spend 1 - 1.5 days on chores and sleep catch-up -- not much time for socializing.Loneliness is epidemic because most of us are no longer rooted in a community, for reasons beyond our control and very much not of our choosing. I hope that you'll read these comments, open your mind and your heart, be less judgemental, and vote for left-of-center pols who will address everything the stems from our rigged-by-the-rich tax code (the housing crisis, lousy wages, inadequate public transportation, etc.) -- everything that makes Murka the worst developed democracy in the world, a third-world country in first-world clothing.

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