I think the argument is that capitalism is incentivized to keep you lonely so you buy more stuff for exactly the reason you describe.
Ach, nuts. I even spent a minute trying to understand where I’d gone wrong, reasoning that it wasn’t all that likely that Jacob’s post would contain something as strange as the thing I thought I was seeing. Oh well.
I think the argument is that capitalism is incentivized to keep you lonely so you buy more stuff for exactly the reason you describe.
Ach, nuts. I even spent a minute trying to understand where I’d gone wrong, reasoning that it wasn’t all that likely that Jacob’s post would contain something as strange as the thing I thought I was seeing. Oh well.