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by codingdave 2523 days ago
> Young people has way more options to enjoy life alone such as...

I've never quite bought this argument. Yes, the choices are different. 100 years ago travel might be by train. Or hitch-hiking. Instead of video games you had a deck of cards and played solitaire. Today we have MMORPGs, back then it was again cards, sitting around a table. They didn't watch YouTube, but absolutely read books and newspapers.

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Things you could do alone back then were kind of boring, while you can do really engaging stuff alone nowadays. Like talking to other people over the Internet.