> IMO as tech people we are partly to blame for this. This was happening way before tech was taking off. This trend was already booming in the 1990s. Robert Pu

> IMO as tech people we are partly to blame for this. This was happening way before tech was taking off. This trend was already booming in the 1990s. Robert Putnam wrote his book about social capital decline before the year 2000 - way before the social media and tech explosion. Tech is hardly the cause. Capitalism is to blame. Capitalism. Say it with me, capitalism. The further we atomize people - the more capitalism thrives. (No unions, no broader labor movements, etc.)