Sex workers offering emotional support is an old trope, so I guess it was always part of the job. What bothers me more is AI joining the game and how widespread loneliness seems to be, especially among men.
Loneliness seems more connected to late stage capitalism to me. Individualism has been pushed too far. The quest for a glorified independancy and the monetizatization of everything is destroying social links. There are many other things that capitalist culture favor, and they’re all as damaging to socialisation and society.
Particularly in America, it’s become blatantly clear how late capitalist alienation is driving the “Loneliness Epidemic.” With “rugged individualism,” car culture, suburbanization, and the loss of third places, it’s really no wonder people are lonely. Any analysis of the “Loneliness Epidemic” that fails to incorporate capitalist alienation as the root cause feels pretty ridiculous to me at this point.
I don’t fully agree, before we were often forced into specific rather small and closed social circles, now at least in most parts of Europe people are more free to choose and build those circles for them selves. While I will agree that capitalism in it’s current form does not make it easy.
Sex workers offering emotional support is an old trope, so I guess it was always part of the job. What bothers me more is AI joining the game and how widespread loneliness seems to be, especially among men.
Loneliness seems more connected to late stage capitalism to me. Individualism has been pushed too far. The quest for a glorified independancy and the monetizatization of everything is destroying social links. There are many other things that capitalist culture favor, and they’re all as damaging to socialisation and society.
Particularly in America, it’s become blatantly clear how late capitalist alienation is driving the “Loneliness Epidemic.” With “rugged individualism,” car culture, suburbanization, and the loss of third places, it’s really no wonder people are lonely. Any analysis of the “Loneliness Epidemic” that fails to incorporate capitalist alienation as the root cause feels pretty ridiculous to me at this point.
I don’t fully agree, before we were often forced into specific rather small and closed social circles, now at least in most parts of Europe people are more free to choose and build those circles for them selves. While I will agree that capitalism in it’s current form does not make it easy.