Socialising with other people is messy, and hard, and often the payoff is not realised for quite some time. This is why people end up having so many social connections from their work, or other areas where you have frequent forced interactions: it takes time to get over that initial hump and see people as friends.

Unfortunately our tendency as humans is to avoid this unpleasantness, and so we've built technologies and systems that embrace that. Food delivered to our door, dating apps that mean we never have to approach anyone, and embracing remote work where we never see anyone.

Something has to change. Connecting with others is in our DNA, and is going to cause a lot of suffering as we continue down this path.