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Whether this can be a good thing depends heavily on your opinion of the importance of family and shared history in society and culture.

• viraptor 2y ago
  Or more specifically whether you want to put people first, or some idealised structures with hidden issues.
  • _heimdall 2y ago
    Even that depends on what people you are putting first. Putting the individual first and it will likely make sense to put little value in family structures and community connection. Putting community first, or specifically the people who are in a stage of life that really need help day to day, and valuing family connections makes more sense. Neither are an absolute fix to everything. Like everything else, a mix of both likely makes the most sense.
    • exe34 2y ago
      > the people who are in a stage of life that really need help day to day, They should have thought of that before they fucked up their kids.
      • _heimdall 2y ago
        The thread here is talking about it as a very common occurrence. If you really think that a large percentage, or even a majority, of parents have fucked up their kids we have much bigger problems to deal with than how many elderly people may be living alone.