Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Why are Americans Isolated and Lonely?

11 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of Dennis Prager's commentary, he highlights a growing trend of Americans spending more time at home, which he links to increasing social isolation and loneliness. He draws a stark comparison between solitary confinement and the everyday experience of eating alone at home. Prager references a New York Times commentary noting that many people cannot afford typical social outings such as restaurant meals, baseball games, or theater performances. He underscores the economic barrier by citing the average Dodger game ticket price of $295, illustrating how prohibitive costs limit communal experiences, especially when attending alone would double the expense.

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Time spent at home in the US has been rising in parallel with social isolation and loneliness. Exactly. Hello. Solitary confinement is a torture. We're not trading dining in at a restaurant for hosting people for dinner. We are simply eating more at home alone. The lead comments in the New York Times on On that article was that people can't afford to go out to a restaurant, they can't afford a ballgame, they can't afford theater tickets. On a regular game, not opening day, the average ticket at a Dodger game this past year was $295. That what these people are writing makes sense. How many people could afford $300 per ticket? Very few people go to a baseball game alone. So if you go with one person, it's, it's $600.