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0 pointsharambae4y ago0 comments

>The reality is that poverty amplifies loneliness while reducing the ability to socialize

Without diminishing how incredibly unequal/bimodal some areas of America are, I wonder if the second part of this statement is statistically backed up.

When I was poor I frequently interacted with different people waiting for the bus, riding the subway, hanging out outside the mobile home park drinking, etc. Now, borderline-rich, I find it much harder to interact with people. I drive alone in a car, live in a luxury condo complex where no one talks to each other, etc. (Although there's also a pandemic going on so apples-to-oranges)

Stats seem mixed [0]

[0] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_the_rich_m...

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mandmandam4y ago

The pandemic has affected the poor's ability to socialize far, far more than the wealthy. Your examples are each of choices you make that poor people do not have.

The stats aren't mixed, they're "u shaped" according to your link. Again, the difference is that the wealthy are lonely by choice; the poor by lack of options.

therealdrag04y ago

This is my impression also, that lower incomes are more social and community involved (church etc).

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