Yes, there are ways to try to commercialize intimacy, but they're horrible and don't actually achieve it. > It's a noble idea, but begs the question why a comm

Yes, there are ways to try to commercialize intimacy, but they're horrible and don't actually achieve it. > It's a noble idea, but begs the question why a community would want to have responsibility to individuals that they may not want to have in their presence in the first place. If you help build up the people around you into better people, and get to know them, they tend to reciprocate. It can take a very long time, not everyone reciprocates equally, they may be coming from a very different place that's hard to understand, and it can be painful. But it's intrinsically rewarding to pursue the companionship of others genuinely, as hurt as you might get doing so. What you gain when you're honest makes up for it. Trying to do so in the proper manner takes constant reevaluation and work, but we're not here to just sit in front of a computer and buy stuff, we're here to interact with those around us and try to get as close as we can to fulfillment.