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Historically that would definitely be true, but there's a couple interesting anecdotes in the article where some of the men mention spending their time holed up
by gph 8y ago
Historically that would definitely be true, but there's a couple interesting anecdotes in the article where some of the men mention spending their time holed up alone either on their phone, watching TV, or doing various leisure activities like karoke. In the past they didn't have those kinds of distractions and/or solitariness. The reality is they may just grow old and sad often stuck in their remote village far cut off from any center of power or importance.
- wavefunction 8y agoOr they just kill themselves eventually out of loneliness and despair. I was traveling through Karnataka a few years back and was riding a conveyance from the historical site back to my accommodations and passed through a small town on the way. There was a middle-aged (perhaps even late 20s) man lying in the middle of the road, while traffic dodged around him. The driver told us the man was to poor to start a family and so had gotten drunk and laid in the road to be run-over and killed.
- conistonwater 8y agoHow did the driver know that?
- Rescis 8y agoPresumably it was a normal occurence.