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But the worst sacrifice is the loss of any sense of community, of face-to-face human transactions with people you know, people who have duties and obligations to one another that can be successfully enacted and fulfilled. Instead, you get to do all your business with robots, even including the robots fronting for companies that seek to ruin you. “
TribalismThat's another point made in the book The Suicide of the West, that tribalism is a human trait that can't be eradicated by social engineering and is important for societies.
France still maintains a general quality-of-life so far above what is found in the US these days that we look like some left-behind evolutionary dead end here in this wilderness of strip-malls and muffler shops. They live in towns and cities that are designed to bring people together in public. They support small business in spite of the diktats of Brussels.I've read somewhere that it's common for the French to shut down for two hours at midday, they close their shops and businesses for a leisurely lunch time and relaxation. Such an idea would strike business owners in this country with apoplexy they're so parsimonious with their time.
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