[pierrekin]

In my society, absolutely, possibly literally more than a hundred people.

Where in the world is the answer no? Maybe if you’ve freshly immigrated to a new country or something?

That is a very scary thought, but it’s also scary for me to think that so many people live such isolated lives, it’s such a foreign concept to me culturally.

[karlgkk]

The answer is no when you are severely mentally ill or have some other condition that causes you to be strongly detrimental to the people around you, such as addiction.

To the point where you have no friends. To the point where even your own parents have given up.

> Where in the world

Everywhere. You can’t comprehend it because you don’t know anyone like that, likely because the government you live in takes care of that problem for you.

> isolated lives

And by the way, the people in your culture in this situation are isolated too, from you. And that’s okay, and maybe good even. But you don’t know about them.

I don’t know what the right answer is. America’s answer is definitely not the right answer. But interrogate your culture, too, and how it takes care of your most vulnerable people. You may be dismayed at the answer, or you may not.

[darkwater]

Unfortunately I think there are many places in the world like that. It just takes someone with even a mild mental illness, a relatively small family and the sudden early death of a parent to start a vicious cycle.

[philipallstar]

> Maybe if you’ve freshly immigrated to a new country or something?

SF's pro-homeless policies in particular attract people away from real support networks and towards government-assisted ones.

[RandyOrion]

There is a term called low-trust society, and at least 1.4 billion people are struggling in that.