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Originally Posted by zamler
Taking a walk to the corner store possibly interacting with people along the way versus
(picture of about 0.1% of the population)
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Ok. Yeah.
What's with the human interaction tangent in here? Not going to the store when you don't have to is taking society to Hell? That's how people met people back in the day? Nowadays, people don't talk to each other at the store. In line, people pull out their phones and talk silently to people they know and people they don't know, across many different platforms that have recently been invented. Our "circle" of friends and acquaintances has gone exponential and become more like a sphere, with dozens or hundreds or thousands more people that we wouldn't otherwise never know.
Look at this site, where quite a few of us spend a lot of time. Many hundreds of usernames are recognizable, a couple/few hundred are active enough that you kind of know each other. And then there are many many IRL friendships and lots of commerce.
This is the evolution of human interaction. We all still leave the house every day. We just talk to different strangers than we did before, and because of that, we learn (or take in, anyway) a variety of information that was unheard of a mere 20 years ago. I think we'll survive not going to the store and not hear Betty that cashier's quip about the weather.