Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan • Hacker News Board

Re: Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

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Post by baxtr » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 8:23 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #212

baxtr wrote: post #211

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@dang, how do you curate these? Manually? Have you thought about sourcing these by looking at the most favorited comments per week?

Manually, some by ourselves and some nominated by readers. That's a good idea btw - here are some of the most-favorited comments from this past week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472…

@dang: these are amazing! Real useful gems... I think they are different than the highlight ones, seems like people favorite them because of their utility mostly.

Would love to see it as /favorites in the lists page!

Re: Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

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Post by BurningFrog » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

sutterd wrote: post #105

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GDP just measures the average wealth of a society, on the assumption that production equals consumption. Wealth is unambiguously good, but of course it fails at measuring the full extent of human flourishing. My take on Economists is that they keep desperately trying to make people understand that prices are set by supply vs demand dynamics, while society keeps refusing to understand it.

Is wealth the right term here? I thought it was supposed to measure production, with the actual measurement usually spending (with qualifiers). And, when comparing countries, you have to account for the different currencies. Currencies are typically trade balanced, which gives a rough equivelence for buying power, but that is not true with the dollar because, as the effective reserve currency, it has international de…

Something like "economic value" is probably a more precise term than "wealth".

Re: Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

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Post by dyauspitr » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

castral wrote: post #117

dyauspitr wrote: post #109

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This is a pretty sexist take considering the original article was not talking about the male loneliness epidemic, but elderly, and indeed the first example used was even of an elderly woman awaiting delivery. The commentary here is really something else.

For a country unable to create enough children to replace themselves I might propose that state assigned surrogates might be by far the most pressing fix to an apocalyptic problem.

Re: Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

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Post by mock-possum » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 3:39 PM UTC

slim wrote: post #220

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You’re projecting, not everyone is so desperate for human connection. Spending a few weeks completely alone sounds like heaven to me.

It sounded like heaven to me too before experiencing it

Well I’m sorry to hear that, but at least you’ve learned something about yourself - do you think you might be able to manage it better next time, being more prepared for the experience?

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Post by sa-code » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 12:09 PM UTC

kakacik wrote: post #69

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What’s there to live for otherwise? Can you flesh this idea out more?

You live for others? As in remove those others and you lose whole purpose of life? I am not trying to be rude, seems like retirement homes house plenty of such people but it doesn't make sense for younger folks... although this is hardly a choice, is it. But - I believe one can work on this and move themselves quite a bit if wanted. My 2 cents - mountains and nature and activities in them are always beautiful, as in…

> backpacking around the world

> sports

> seeing cultures and history and food

All of these things still require interaction with other people? If you remove all the others you also don't get to enjoy the things that you claim to enjoy by yourself

Being able to hike the mountains without the equipment that others have tried/tested/packaged/sold is not possible either.

Imagine that you're traveling space and you get stuck on an empty planet, that's the logical conclusion of "removing the need for human connection"