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#96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone?
- The unprecedented rise of urban dwellers living on their own challenges normative ideas about home and raises questions about how this change in social structure and lifestyle affects cities as a whole. While the causes of living alone seem apparent—shifting social values, the flexibilization of labour, new demographics, increased wealth, and chang... See more
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To have autonomy without interdependency leads to isolation or narcissism. To have interdependency with no autonomy stunts our psychological growth. Healthy people live in social groups that have learned to balance or, better, marry these two imperatives.
from Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
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- Many who can afford to live alone will choose community over seclusion
from Co-Living: Sharing Economy, Downsizing, Experiences by drurly
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