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marcosdumay 7 months ago

Have people even actually spend any serious amount of any resource on it?

I only see people talking.

billllll 7 months ago | parent [-]

How do you even "fix" loneliness? If you don't know that, you can't allocate resources. Plenty of research studies have been done on loneliness to find a silver bullet.

For most people, it's not like there aren't opportunities to meet people and talk to people. It's well understood that no matter how many people you get exposed to for a period of time, meaningful relationships can't be forced.

Plenty of lonely people in big cities going to social events.

marcosdumay 7 months ago | parent [-]

Yes, I do agree that not knowing how one can solve it is a huge contributor to nobody trying to solve it.

But the entire article is complaining that we should stop trying to solve it so we can go do something more important. So, the entire article is high-order bullshit.

Just this bit:

> For most people, it's not like there aren't opportunities to meet people and talk to people.

I believe this is very wrong.