Neil Freiman

And since the early 2000s, the amount of time that Americans say they spend helping or caring for people outside their nuclear family has dropped by more than a third.

Toby, we are becoming a nation of homebodies.

No, it's Thompson, right?

Americans used to have more kids whom they watch less.

Now they have fewer children whom they watched more.

And he chalks up this quote unquote antisocial century to three main factors.

And again,

They're fairly obvious.

It's not reinventing the wheel here.

It's greater professional ambition.

So people are delaying marriage and having kids in order to pursue their career prospects.

More intensive parenting, as we talked about, and lavish entertainment abundance.

You can't ignore the screen factor in all of this.

As American socialization has declined over the last few decades, there's been an increase in not only television, but social media everywhere.

study that you find finds that we are spending more times in front of our screens instead of interacting face to face with humans.

We are absolutely winning the money game.

And here's a stat that illustrates that in 1990, the per capita gross domestic product GDP in the United States was about 28% higher than in the Euro area.

Now that gap is more than 80%.

But if you run down things like life satisfaction, happiness, crime, we are trailing in every single category.

among our peer nations.