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maerF0x0 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

> can't fill this gap reliably

Except they did... for centuries ?? How can we claim that relying on community and a network of people is unreliable when it was the defacto solution for as long as we've existed?

s1mplicissimus 8 months ago [–]

Historically, people wouldn't even move out of the village, never mind across the continent. So it was a bit easier to get the kids to the grannies.

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