A comment on Hacker News I resonated with:

"The decline of community is a very big deal.

I think a lot of it has to do with the way we build our living spaces.^[av]

Modern North American cities are rife with car-centric suburbs, huge driveways, front doors set back a mile from the sidewalk, long commutes to anywhere (not just work, even to get groceries).

We're living in these metal-and-glass boxes and we only see other people as obstacles in the way of what we want, rather than fellow human beings."