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It seems like so many people are reclusive and unfriendly. I think this is because people have to put in so much more time and effort just to have a middle-class lifestyle. There's not enough good jobs to go around, not enough houses to go around, not enough space on the highway for everyone to get to/from work without sitting in traffic, not enough beds in hospitals for you to stay there more than a day, etc. To make it in the middle-class today, that is, to have a job that compensates enough for you to pay your bills, take a couple weeks of vacation and still be putting a non-trivial amount of money into retirement, you need to spend years and years engaging in a zero-sum tournament where you out-compete all your peers to get into lucrative schools, get lucrative internships and so forth. Not to mention the fact that those who have full-time jobs are putting in more hours than ever before. At the end of the day, no one has the time or energy to be involved in their community, raise a family or any of that good stuff that was possible in the old days.
I have be seeing a trend in the last 20 years where it us making people less honest. We long since crossed the line where people think you can make a successful living being honest. Too many years of the "winners" being thieves is changing society.
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