The Price of Being Alone

von Davis Shyaka Musirikare

214 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when human connection becomes a market opportunity?For most of human history, community was a strict matter of survival. Today, it has become an optional, often expensive, lifestyle choice. As we have unbundled our neighborhoods, digitized our commutes, and outsourced our daily chores to the gig economy, we have achieved unprecedented personal independence. But we have also created a profound, aching void in the modern human experience. Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does capitalism.In The Price of Being Alone: How Modern Life Turned Loneliness Into an Economy, author Davis Shyaka Musirikare delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the multi-trillion-dollar industries that have risen to manage, service, and monetize our isolation.This is not a simplistic anti-technology manifesto or a nostalgic plea for the past. Instead, it is a nuanced economic and sociological journey that asks us to examine the hidden costs of a frictionless life. From the dark kitchens delivering solitary meals and the dating apps monetizing romantic hope, to the rise of artificial AI companions and luxury co-living spaces, this book explores how the global market successfully blurred the line between providing temporary "company" and fostering true "connection."Inside this book, you will discover:¿ Why the solitary "empty evening" has become the most contested and profitable commercial real estate on the planet.¿ How modern urban planning, real estate, and transportation quietly engineered incidental human contact out of our cities.¿ The critical biological difference between digital parasocial relationships and physical, reciprocal friendships.¿ How cultures across the globe-from the hyper-dense apartments of Tokyo and London to the rapidly urbanizing cities of Kigali and Lagos-are navigating the collision between traditional mutual reliance and hyper-individualized tech consumption.¿ Why visionary businesses, urban planners, and civic leaders who focus on fostering "productive friction" and genuine human interdependence are redefining the future of the economy.The Price of Being Alone will fundamentally change how you view your subscriptions, your smartphone, your neighborhood, and your daily habits. It is a powerful reminder that while the market can sell us an infinite array of tools to manage the symptoms of our isolation, the ultimate cure for loneliness remains inherently free, beautifully inefficient, and unapologetically human.Discover the hidden architecture of modern isolation-and learn how we can start designing a world that makes it easier for us to belong.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie
• ISBN: 9798237969924
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Davis Shyaka Musirikare