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Hypothesis: few people actually *want* a full-blown community past about 25. They just think they do. It’s a lot of time and work to be involved in “community” in the sense of shared beyond-family communal daily life (meals etc) and weekly parties, seeing friends everyday etc.
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30% of people doing something within the last 7 days (27% of 18-34) definitely feels pretty popular to me, and that's only a 25% decline from 80 years ago. We can switch to speculating why they are so popular, but wasn't the initial premise that community is too much work?
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I think 30% is basically a fringe activity. "Community" is talked about like eating and sleeping -- basic to life. If only 30% are doing it in a recognizable way, the interesting question is if it's actually that necessary or if the other 70% are doing something else.
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