🚨Capitalism is destroying your friendships!🚨 See why here:
argues that humans change their goals as they age, so it’s expected that people will shed friendships as they get older. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. “In other cultures, friendships at an older age tend to be much more robust – both qualitatively and quantitatively,” Kristen Ghodsee says, an ethnographer and author of. “There’s something unique about capitalism that makes us feel the need to pare back.
Friendship therefore becomes something we ‘invest’ in, and if we don’t get a return on that investment, we might feel obliged to cut someone out. If this sounds ruthless, that’s because it often is. A recent article in the” was widely lambasted for encouraging people to reconsider relationships with friends who are, in other words, depressed or obese. It’s hard not to see this ruthless purging as bordering on sociopathic.
But friendship pruning isn’t just the preserve of girl bosses; for most, it’s a necessary calculation. Many people are burned out and struggling to find the time to squeeze friendship into their relentless working lives. This is particularly true of gig workers, who tend to have less autonomy and control over their schedules, and for whom often, spending time with friends is weighed up against the prospect of another job.
And while there may be mental health benefits to setting boundaries, there are also advantages to having expansive social networks. Julianne Holt-Lunstad is a psychologist whose research has focused on the long-term health effects of social connection. “There’s evidence to show that both size and diversity of social networks has been linked to a variety of physical health outcomes, including risk for premature mortality,” she says.
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