Loneliness Economy: Products, Platforms, and Services Built to Profit from Social Disconnection

You already pay into this economy. Most people do, several times a week, without ever noticing the transaction.Every swipe on a dating app, every late-night message to a chatbot that remembers your name, every coworking membership, every subscription box for a dog treated like a firstborn child, every livestreamed dinner shared with forty strangers on a screen, sends money toward companies whose g...