Leftists blame loneliness on capitalism — single people buy twice as many toasters, sex toys, and Netflix subscriptions.
I know you aren’t saying you agree with this logic, but I’ll just point out that in the case of toasters and Netflix subscriptions, there’s a much more obvious explanation, which is that a couple living together only needs one toaster between them, so on average they only buy .5 toasters each.
Ach, nuts. I even spent a minute trying to understand where I’d gone wrong, reasoning that it wasn’t all that likely that Jacob’s post would contain something as strange as the thing I thought I was seeing. Oh well.
I know you aren’t saying you agree with this logic, but I’ll just point out that in the case of toasters and Netflix subscriptions, there’s a much more obvious explanation, which is that a couple living together only needs one toaster between them, so on average they only buy .5 toasters each.
I think the argument is that capitalism is incentivized to keep you lonely so you buy more stuff for exactly the reason you describe.
Ach, nuts. I even spent a minute trying to understand where I’d gone wrong, reasoning that it wasn’t all that likely that Jacob’s post would contain something as strange as the thing I thought I was seeing. Oh well.