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by preommr 1402 days ago
> Its discriminatory because if you don't know someone you can be SOL.

Thanks for explicitly explaining that part. Now that you've put it that way, it's a pretty apt term but I probably wouldn't have been able to figure out because that term is usually used for things like gender, race, etc. and my brain immediately jumped to that. Maybe I am just stupid, but sometimes it shouldn't be that hard to understand what people mean and it helps to be more explicit.

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Good opportunity to talk about it. An awful lot of people are extremely solitary. I’d wager this is more of a problem than racial discrimination because:

- Lonely people aren’t visible, by definition,

- Solitude increases racism, so it would be worth solving,

- They often end up creating companies and being one’s boss.