If your local town zoning forbids you from building detached accessory buildings accessory dwelling units for having your nephew live in, change the fucking zoning. Community is facilitated by convenience, and living within a stone's throw from loved ones is great way to build community.
That is happening in some places. Accessory dwelling units (the term of art in planning and zoning worlds) are being allowed more and more. Things change slowly in the urban planning and zoning world, though.
The greatest joy that money can't replicate is a big potluck dinner at someone's home with friends. No expectations, no food judgment, just a chance to hang out and not be expected to spend $100 at a restaurant you don't like.
Aww, I didn't know that about OKC. I met my wife on there in 2015, married in 2017, and had our first kid in 2019. Of all the dating sites, it was the best for weeding out what I wanted in a partner. I hate capitalism even more now.
It's still better than the alternatives. But it got massively enshittified over the years
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.
Capitalism bastardised the internet to be like this. There was a communal web in the making.
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.
It is by design, but unless you wanna rot in your basement until you expire, it's up to you to defy the pushes of the system to complacency. Going out and making some friends with a common interest immediately improves your life.
If your local town zoning forbids you from building
detached accessory buildingsaccessory dwelling units for having your nephew live in, change the fucking zoning. Community is facilitated by convenience, and living within a stone's throw from loved ones is great way to build community.That is happening in some places. Accessory dwelling units (the term of art in planning and zoning worlds) are being allowed more and more. Things change slowly in the urban planning and zoning world, though.