The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness

They want the dynamism of being able to change jobs and careers, they all want the opportunity for career progression which for the most part isn't there (it's always been competitive).

That means more risk and all the things that come along with it.

I think even 'remote work' will have a serious of consequences we're not ready to accept, which is that it will make workers even more fungible.

If someone literally can't show up for work ... then they're generally going to be seen as more easily replaced or changed around.

We need to fixing housing costs badly though.

Online social is a complete shit show. You’re spending time with peoples outward persona not real people.

The standard formula was music plus style plus some kind of group bonding activity like dancing, playing music, going outside, etc. Drugs were pretty often involved too, but not always and even in drug-heavy scenes like raves there was a sizable "straight edge" faction.

This was basically how all the young people who were not "jocks" or into other official activities (of which there is a limited selection) would meet one another and socialize.

Maybe I just don't know, but this stuff really seems dead. I've spent some time digging out of curiosity and I've never found a hint of anything similar today. It seems like it all moved online into social media and now instead of dancing all night in warehouses or going camping to hear a band people just stare at phones and have their brains sucked out by "engagement" (addiction) maximizing algorithms.

So social media seems like one thing that killed it, but I also think police crackdowns motivated by standard issue drug war freakouts were a factor too. (Irony: the replacement, algorithmically curated social media, is much more addictive than a lot of the drugs I remember people doing back then.)

So now there's the people who are into the mainstream standard stuff and... what? Social media? 4chan?

I shudder to think of who I would be without rave culture in late high school and college. I'd probably be dead of suicide or one of these hate-ridden incels or pajama Nazi CHUD types. I'd put my money on suicide.

Edit: my philosophy with my kids is that screen time is okay as long as their lives are full of a lot of other things. I don't think screens are the problem per se. I was also into hacker stuff when I was a kid and spent a lot of time in front of screens. The problem is the absence of enriching social activities, not the presence of a screen. I do selectively ban certain things though, like YouTube, that are particularly toxic.

It depends of the company culture.