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 South Korea has a program to pay lonely youth $500 usd a month to encourage them to leave their homes and go make friends. 

https://fortune.com/2023/04/13/south-korea-reclusive-population-hikikomori-young-people-allowance/amp/ 
 lonely koreans: *opens UpBit* 
 Join a Bitcoin group and stack sats! 
 Oh my gosh I love this! I’d be like “how long do I have to be out with people?” 😂 
 Whattttt.. 
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 I now identify as a lonely Korean youth. Please send $500. 
 that's sad :( it's good that they're taking mental health seriously, but it's sad that it's so bad that this has to be done :( 
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 And in Oz the government pays you $300 per week to stay home and watch Netflix! 
 Sad. Probably rest of the world could use a similar program. 

I blame the internet and smartphones for making almost everyone’s social skills worse and people’s inability to have IN person face to face conversation.