People have been citing Marx's theory of alienation for a century and a half. Conveniently, they are only started to manifest during the rise of social media.

People have been citing Marx's theory of alienation for a century and a half. Conveniently, they are only started to manifest during the rise of social media. > Fast forward and we're now trying to derive purpose out of pure competition. What percentile is your IQ, your GPA, your income, your stack rank I hear this a lot, and this attitude does seem more pervasive on the internet, but in the real world, I find that people don't care about any of this any more than they have to, especially after college. The only people who I know who work "unhealthy hours" genuinely seem to enjoy work or are treating work as an escape. When you look at working hours in the US it's been mostly flat since 2010 and it's actually significantly lower than it was in the 1950s [1]. The real reason nobody is spending time with their community because they are too busy consuming media. The average teen spends over 7 hours a day consuming media [2]. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8444888/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8444888/