2/Tons of things that are crucially important to human life are not bought and sold in a market.

Hence, they are not counted in numbers like GDP.

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/markets-in-almost-nothing.html">https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/m...
5/Are Americans socially isolated?

Sociologists have been documenting a decline in civic participation for a while now, but that alone isn& #39;t enough to prove the case. https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046">https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-A...
10/Some have suggested we& #39;re headed for an "intimacy apocalypse". https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1295742499441582081">https://twitter.com/roderickg...
11/Could suburbanization be the culprit?

Research generally doesn& #39;t show a strong connection between suburbanization and loneliness...

http://www.louise-arseneault.com/CMSUploads/2019-Loneliness-and-neighbourhood-characteristics.pdf

https://www.louise-arseneault.com/CMSUpload... href=" https://www3.nd.edu/~adutt/activities/documents/oliver-hapconf_000.pdf

Living">https://www3.nd.edu/~adutt/ac... in NYC can be lonely too!

https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/why-living-big-city-so-isolating-lonely-isolation-loneliness-4210">https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/...
12/A more likely culprit is work.

Americans get very little vacation.

https://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/no-vacation-nation-2019-05.pdf

https://cepr.net/images/st... href=" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-in-four-workers-in-us-dont-get-any-paid-vacation-time-or-holidays/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-... href=" https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/08/28/what-does-america-have-against-vacation/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/20...
14/So giving people more time off will be conducive to human relationships.

But also, providing for people& #39;s basic material needs would free them to focus on their social needs. https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html ">https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.ht...
15/Things like national health care and cheap housing, in addition to more vacation, would free Americans to focus on their social lives.
16/The government can& #39;t fix loneliness all by itself. It will take a massive grassroots social effort to reduce social isolation. But policy can help, by removing the obstacles to a healthy social life.

(end) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-25/how-to-end-america-s-loneliness-epidemic?sref=R8NfLgwS">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...
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