>The ongoing disintegration of the normative human society, loss of extended family structures, and escalating segmentation of what used to be a community to different age and class groups well separated in spacetime is a world-wide disaster with far-reaching ripples.
My theory is that this is the true price of obtaining financial freedom, and hence actual freedom. Community requires compromise (sometimes unfairly more from some than others). But once the glue of economic dependence on one another is removed, what is the force that would make people compromise? Everyone can do their own thing, which is nice, but seems to have some pretty big unforeseen large scale downsides that are slowly revealing themselves.
My theory is that this is the true price of obtaining financial freedom, and hence actual freedom. Community requires compromise (sometimes unfairly more from some than others). But once the glue of economic dependence on one another is removed, what is the force that would make people compromise? Everyone can do their own thing, which is nice, but seems to have some pretty big unforeseen large scale downsides that are slowly revealing themselves.