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We are social creatures, there is something quite unnatural only interacting with your wife/kid or worse - with no one else at all, for weeks and months. Offic
by onion2k 5y ago
We are social creatures, there is something quite unnatural only interacting with your wife/kid or worse - with no one else at all, for weeks and months.
Offices are significantly less 'natural' than spending time with a small group of people. If you go back a thousand years or so many people lived their entire life within a mile or two of where they were born - they grew up, worked, got married, lived and died in a single village. In lots of more isolated cases people would have only met a couple of hundred people in their entire lifetime.
It's definitely unusual to lead such a limited life today, but psychologically it's not that bad. People survived pretty well, and they continue to now.
- closeparen 5y agoThere was much more of a community life outside the home, with your fellow villagers.
- biomcgary 5y agoIn this case, the community is defined by the proximity to your home. Working at an office with a typical US commute is not remotely the same.
- deadbeeves 5y agoWorking remotely from home is also a very different lifestyle, so I'm not sure what the argument is. Living as if it's the 1000 BC is not in the cards.
- Kye 5y agoPerhaps there's a connection between the loss of community and the rise of long commutes to drab office parks.
- deadbeeves 5y agoThat "small" group would consist of something like 100 people, not 5. If you want to appeal to nature, it's less natural for your family to be your entire social circle, than for it to include casual workplace acquaintances.
- weatherlite 5y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted, this is the truth. We are much closer to a pack of chimps than anything else, definitely not 2-3 family members (and even 2-3 members is optimistic considering divorce rate and plummeting child bearing) . We lived in groups of a few dozens of members for hundreds of thousands of years.