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Anti-loneliness club offers friendship for $200 a month – and thousands have signed upThe fact that so many are ready to part with their cash points to the potency of our loneliness crisis. According to the US health department, lonelier people are at twice the risk of developing depression compared with their non-lonely peers, as well as a much higher risk of heart disease, stroke, dementia and premature death.
[Capitalism has so naturalized hyper-individualistic, socially fragmentary ways of framing and pursuing our lives that now it can sell our prosociality back to the well-off among us for a monthly fee.]
