Erik Klinenberg suggests that part of the decline in social ties is rooted in our preference for efficiency: He points to a study that found that a daycare that made pickup as seamless and quick as possible meant that the parents hardly got to know each other. But when you forced the parents to come inside, wait around, and pick up their kids at the same time, boom, social connections began to form14. But part of the problem, too, is a decline in social infrastructure: the spaces, public and private, from libraries to supper clubs and synagogues, that made it easy to cultivate informal,
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