The Economics of Loneliness

Loneliness is now a kind of urgent issue in the minds of millions. Is it because capitalism has changed? Or just that we've become aware of something that was always there, but is now front and centre in our attention? I think it's both, not one or the other. What has happened is capitalism has been transformed. Let's look at the united states, for example, the four biggest employers, who are well described in emily gendelburger's book, on the clock. Here they are, wamart, amazon, fast food and coal centrs. They all have scanners that let their workers know, fhrom constant buzzing that they're not