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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

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TFNA · 1790163274 · focus · HN ↗
> no one is getting rich selling anti-loneliness pills (yet)
There is already an ecosystem of for-profit social events in European cities (and probably elsewhere) profiting off people's desire to meet up with other human beings when social opportunies have shrunk. Once has seen this on e.g. Meetup.com or Facebook for years now, where bot profiles are used to swell event-signup numbers so people think they will meet more people. Indeed, with the enshittification of Meetup, the only forces that prosper on that site are for-profit ones.
1. bcjdjsndon · 1790165726 · focus · HN ↗
  > There is already an ecosystem of for-profit social events in European cities (and probably elsewhere) profiting off people's desire to meet up with other human beings when social opportunies have shrunk.
  They're called nightclubs and bars lol trust HN to be so insulated from the wider world
  1. TFNA · 1790173439 · focus · HN ↗
    Those have always been around (but in many markets are declining as younger people are less likely to drink alcohol). My post was obviously about developments in the recent, especially post-Covid world.

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