More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave | 
“…most people will still opt for privacy and autonomy over technical efficiency and community interest.”
While obvious, this blew my mind. Is this perhaps why we are so lonely? Privacy and autonomy are optimized in isolation. But that is not where we are humans find most of our happiness and contentment.
“Democracy dies in darkness” also comes to mind when optimizing for privacy and the U.S‘s current political issues.
jewright My husband works with a man from Afganistán, and this is what he hates about America. He doesn‘t understand why we don‘t live in a big house with family. 2mo
Reggie @jewright have you ever read World War Z? It‘s probably the best zombie book you could ever read. But in the 3rd part where they‘re rebuilding the world. Everyone who has a house, gets families assigned to let them live with them. There is a single man who has, I think, 2 families put with him and he talks about he didn‘t know what he was missing. How lonely he was and how we have all this space and it‘s just empty. I think about that a lot. 2mo
ManyWordsLater @Reggie I LOVE THAT! ❤️💕❤️ 2mo
