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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2025
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Capitalism is part of it. Spending too much time on the internet and social media is a hell of a lot more of it.
What exactly am I supposed to do? Capitalism has killed any public spaces where capitalism isnt the primary purpose. This is a societal problem caused by capitalism and cannot be fixed on an individual level.
False. You can call your friend and go to the park.
I have no friends
This is the difference between the individual and the systemic. Sure, the system is putting pressures that make the past of least resistance to be friendless and alone. But you have the power to fight that, and if you want your life to be better, you absolutely must. I believe in you
That's because you spend too much time on the internet.
Join a club, sport, organization, hobby, volunteer, etc. You'll make friends when you don't spend all your time doom scrolling.
Join a community
Yeah, we can definitely see that.
Capitalism bastardised the internet to be like this. There was a communal web in the making.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Yeah, but describing the problem as a problem of capitalism makes it sound inescapable and unfixable without a complete overhaul of society.
In reality you just need to get off social media and stop scrolling.
I believe capitalism is the problem, and should be replaced by a retroactively-estimating value-production reward-system. Only the economy is overhauled, not society.
Yes, but social media is the problem in your life that you can change today. Capitalism is a system that will take, at minimum, years to replace.
I don't use social media (aside from lemmy). I can assure you that the problem is inescapable and unfixable without a complete overhaul of society.
The problem is capitalism.
Glad to know you have personal experience in every capitalist society on earth. /s
Is that something someone needs in order to criticize it? Why?
Because you're making the claim that capitalism inherently leads to loneliness.
If there are capitalist societies that aren't lonely then that would indicate that capitalism does not inherently lead to loneliness, or that there are other factors that can address loneliness that are more powerful than capitalism.