[artyom]

Sorry, wrong diagnosis in my opinion.

There's not a loneliness epidemic, there's a selfishness epidemic. Nobody does anything for anyone anymore (unless there's money involved, of course).

That's the reason people is alone, avoids having kids or dealing with other people's stuff that could disrupt their overly comfortable western way of life.

Even people that's not that selfish is operating in that environment.

[svantana]

Sorry but this makes no sense. Socializing is not an act of kindness, generally - people mostly do it because they want to. And people have always been selfish.

[artyom]

And people have always been alone, now we're discussing this in the context of an "epidemic".