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Moont1de t1_iy86a2j wrote

Reply to comment by austinrose7 in Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds by mossadnik

This is just a symptom, the disease is the atomized, individualistic, completely neurotic society that makes you wary of your own neighbors

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Uberschrift t1_iy8qlsq wrote

Addictive social media and internet in every ones pocket doesn’t help. And especially thanks to Covid isolating millions.

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microm3gas t1_iyb1mq9 wrote

I’ve been working and traveling from my for the past couple of months.

When not working I’ve been meeting and having conversations with people. It’s been kinda nice.

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TheeSweeney t1_iy92iqb wrote

That's a lot of words to say "the disease is capitalism."

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DTFH_ t1_iyaegg2 wrote

> That's a lot of words to say "the disease is capitalism."

Because its not just Capitalism, this disease could happen in any economic or political system. The issue is people have figured out economic exploits leading to our system glitching and routinely collapsing of the economic game.

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Accujack t1_iy9g7cf wrote

Chinese stream fans have the same issues with parasocial relationships as people in the US do. Quite possibly North Koreans, too.

Just because you dislike the capitalist system doesn't mean it's the root of all evil. Unrestricted capitalism is a problem, but so is unrestricted socialism.

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WhenIDecide t1_iyaip3h wrote

China is also a capitalist nation

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Accujack t1_iyak3sl wrote

The are neither fully capitalist or communist, they're a unique economic experiment with special economic zones, a command economy, lots of poverty and lots of corruption, and major industries owned by the military.

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DTFH_ t1_iyae5sx wrote

> completely neurotic society that makes you wary of your own neighbors

That's a big lie most people are not afraid of their neighbor, they are driven to see OTHERS through financial repression. This is about our financial game breaking under too many players exploiting known legal "glitches" leading to 'Us/Them' mentalities used to control 'us' from actually seeing the problem is the pool we're swimming in, not whose in the pool. There are very few OTHERs when everyone's basic needs can be met and financial stress isn't redlined.

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