Is America's biggest problem loneliness?

There really is no sense of a community anymore. I actually envy the Mormons for this - being able to keep a real community together. The problem is that people can't seem to have this community connection without religion it seems.

I wish there were more of those single family house communities around built with the idea that the outside is much nicer than being inside. The hardest part of diversity seems to be that with so many different views, norms, etc it is really hard to build a community without some overarching must factor like work or religion.

As I'm getting older I see why people become workaholics. It is the closest thing we have to a daily community.
 
I'm firing on all cylinders in regards to my career, family, and hobbies, but find myself being lonelier than ever.

Quarter life crisis or just loneliness? Maybe both.
 
The biggest problem with the world is the lack of equal opportunity. Your future can be determined the instant you're born, depending on what country you're born in and what kind of family you're born into. We're obviously way too far down the line for there to be any sort of solution to this but it's absolutely ******. As an outsider, I visited NY, Chicago and Boston last year and one thing  I couldn't get over was the fact the majority of all service "low paying" jobs were being done by African Americans or Hispanics. 

There's no way every single one of those people are less competent than I am. I did nothing to never have to worry about food and shelter and access to a good education growing up. It always feels good to tell people you worked hard to get to where you are, and while I don't doubt that for many and credit those who made something out of nothing, the odds are so heavily against some it's mind boggling.

With service jobs increasingly being taken over by technology, what are the kids who have no access to quality education and technology going to do?  They won't even be able to get by working at a a minimum wage supermarket job? 

I've been bothered by this ever since I got back from the States, to the point I'm seriously considering starting a non-profit to provide better technology education to kids in poverty. I'm in a situation in my career where maybe I could actually get this off the ground, but it's still just a concept at the moment.

Whole lotta ranting I know, but I need to get it out there.
 
I miss my college living arrangement a lot when it was 8 of us living in a house.  Def a lot more lonely compared to then
 
millenial said:
 
I miss my college living arrangement a lot when it was 8 of us living in a house.  Def a lot more lonely compared to then
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People said that post-graduation life would be great because you'd be making money and have time to pursue your hobbies.

No one ever said it was gonna get lonelier.
 
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What defines loneliness? No friends? Staying to yourself?
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It's pretty subjective. Some people might be among dozens of people and still feel lonely while others have one soul mate they spend 100% of their time with and be content. Others are solitary by nature and would rather be alone but aren't necessarily "lonely."
 
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America just been too self minded with its more more give less and take more, sell high buy cheap, extract and create highly efficient type of lifestyle.

Race relations seem to have gotten difficult in some regions under trump

We are becoming more divided than united

People turn away quickly. People would distrust each other and thats one of the ways loneliness happens
 
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Internet has played a big role. When you're browsing the net you are constantly getting a dopamine hit. Then you go out in the real world and can't muster up the energy to get to know people. Your reward circuit is messed up because your brain is so accustomed to getting what it wants in the form of Google searches, IG, porn, good music, lulz, message boards with like minded people, etc.
 
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tyisny said:
you would think Social media would help with this but how many real bonds are made thru there.
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I'm on the cusp of deleting all my social media accounts. Selfies and narcissism have made it almost intolerable. Facebook in college, where you had a profile pic and a wall was perfect. Should've ended there.
 
i feel that a lot of older people never developed hobbies...and through hobbies you can meet and interact with folks...

i have a few coworkers who are well into their 60s and 70s, but wont retire...i know they are financially set, but they go to work because they have nothing else to do...
 
NazDrowie said:
i feel that a lot of older people never developed hobbies...and through hobbies you can meet and interact with folks...

i have a few coworkers who are well into their 60s and 70s, but wont retire...i know they are financially set, but they go to work because they have nothing else to do...
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Great point.
 
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Internet has played a big role. When you're browsing the net you are constantly getting a dopamine hit. Then you go out in the real world and can't muster up the energy to get to know people. Your reward circuit is messed up because your brain is so accustomed to getting what it wants in the form of Google searches, IG, porn, good music, lulz, message boards with like minded people, etc.
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IG birds may base their value on the # of likes/followers they get.
 
GetBack said:
I'm on the cusp of deleting all my social media accounts. Selfies and narcissism have made it almost intolerable. Facebook in college, where you had a profile pic and a wall was perfect. Should've ended there.
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I've given it thought and truthfully Twitter is the only one that's hard to get low from. When following the right people the discussions are interesting
 
tyisny said:
you would think Social media would help with this but how many real bonds are made thru there.
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There are plenty people making bonds with people on the other side of the globe, it's happening a lot
GetBack said:
 
I'm on the cusp of deleting all my social media accounts. Selfies and narcissism have made it almost intolerable. Facebook in college, where you had a profile pic and a wall was perfect. Should've ended there.
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You have complete control on who you friend/follow on social media. It is what you make of it. There are plenty of people who use FB for it's original networking purposes.

I don't understand how people follow/friend people and would rather delete their account entirely than just remove those who they no longer want to associate with
 
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