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> I think the vast majority of people would prefer having social contact via video calls to the alternative of having no social contact or having it only via text chat

Cursory evidence - namely, your up-versus-down-votes on this and the GP comment (both currently gray) - suggests that said majority is not really all that vast.

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I think threads like this tend to end up with a specific subset of people reading them and weird voting patterns. Let’s look again at the point I was responding to:

>> Also, human contact and informal communication make life and working more enjoyable.

>To you.

Present the second statement to anyone outside a certain subset of HN readers and they would just sigh and shake their heads. But on HN we can actually have lengthy debates about whether or not humans are indeed social animals!

The votes are pretty even, incidentally. My comments have been alternately positive and negative.