Ryan Burge

And these are those things, being religious, having kids, getting married, having an education.

All those things make people happier.

And by the way, all those things are correlated with each other, like in this causal matrix, right?

You know, being more religious means you're more likely to be married and more likely to have kids.

You're more likely to have social trust.

If you're more likely to have social trust, you're more likely to be religious.

You're more likely to go to college.

Like all of these things are sort of tangled up in this web of things that generate positivity.

And if you're not in that web of causality, it feels like you're going to struggle on these other metrics like happiness.

So there was this tweet a couple years ago, this guy tweeted, I wish there was a place to hang out that wasn't expensive to hang out.

There's no alcohol there.

We just make friends.

I go, oh, you're going to hate my answer to this question.

But there's probably one less than a mile from you right now that would absolutely love to have you show up and be part.

And all the comments were like, no, not like that.

That's the problem.

People are waiting for this perfect social organization thing to go to to fulfill all their loneliness needs and make connections and maybe find a partner.

Yeah.

Like your grandparents knew how to do this inherently.

And like, we've forgotten how to do it.