Not surprising, and the article completely ignores a more systemic cause: technology, especially advanced technology like computers and AI, is making people mor

Not surprising, and the article completely ignores a more systemic cause: technology, especially advanced technology like computers and AI, is making people more and more independent in general. People simply need each other less and less. Yes, we still need each other for love and companionship, but even that is being mitigated somewhat by AI boyfriends and girlfriends, and AI therapists. True, AI right now cannot replace a human and maybe it never will, but it does lessen the need here and there. It piles upon a long tradition of replacing human beings. And when men and women don't need each other as much in particular, they will more likely see their differences as annoyances rather than strengths. Yes, perhaps equality, feminism, and other movements might have changed some things. And I think equality is a great thing. But what we have to put into context is that equality movements today are not about equality in general, but about making everyone has an equal an opportunity as possible in furthering technology. Personally, I think we have long passed the point of DIMINISHING RETURNS in technology. Is 5G really going to help us more than 4G or 3G, except to feed us more of the mental drug of media to distract us from the real problems of the world? Will AI do much more than reduce the sense of value people have from their creative jobs? The real problem is that technologists happily push advanced tech forward for the sake of their intellectual amusement and profit, and the only measure of value is short-term profit. Ordinary people simply play the prisoner's dilemma to keep up, and as a result, they have to function as cogs in a machine, divorced from the need from other human beings in a community. Is it no wonder that the institution of men and women getting together to help each other has taken a back seat to a new and vicious battle to the top of the meaninglessness of global, capitalistic society? Yes, older societies may not have been perfect. But the new alternative is another step in the wrong direction.