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The loneliness epidemic is a symptom of this particular stage of capitalism. He even acknowledges it:

So what we have to recognize is that, yes, there are material concerns that people have in their lives around the economy, around safety, around other challenges like a housing crisis,

but then immediately hand-waves it away

but there is also a deeper spiritual crisis that's taking place in many of our communities, in our country and in the world more broadly, a crisis that's marked by people feeling a greater sense of disconnection from one another, feeling unmoored or disconnected from sources of meaning and purpose in their lives.

The former is the reason for the latter. People who can't pay rent are going to be a lot less likely to make friends, or go to church, or whatever. Nothing will get better until governments decide, as they did in the wake of WW2, to invest in more democratic economies.