alt Hacker NewsPersonal solutions to systemic problems are not solutions. Yours is great advice for the few people able to take it to heart, find the motivation, and succeed, but you cannot solve societal problems at any kind of scale this way.
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kbelder • 01/20/2026
>Personal solutions to systemic problems are not solutions.
That idea is a social problem. I hope a sufficient number of individuals reject that reasoning.
Just like you aren’t in traffic, you are traffic, you aren’t part of the society, you are society.
Every idea like “let’s have icecream socials at..” started as one person’s pipe dream which they then acted on and executed. No one is coming to rescue us. There’s no secret hand guiding humankind.
You definitely can’t solve loneliness for society but you can solve loneliness for your immediate circle by organising activities and that’s already a huge improvement.
In contrast, sitting back and saying this needs to be solved at a higher level does nothing at all.