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When you aren’t being paid or hired to the same level as your parents at your same age, you lose vital independence, live more deeply in the margins, and going out becomes a costly social obligation rather than an expression of freedom. With less in-person social activity, fewer face-to-face friendships can be maintained. Fewer long-distance friendships or online friendships can be affirmed via travel or meetups. All of this lessens the incentive to go out again if no one else is coming with you, or there’s nobody you know to meet.
Economic instability makes people lonely, insular, and boring.