​​Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good. Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.
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Life for anyone but the very rich — the physical experience of learning, living and dying — is increasingly mediated by screens.
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Not only are screens themselves cheap to make, but they also make things cheaper. Any place that can fit a screen in (classrooms, hospitals, airports, restaurants) can cut costs. And any activity that can happen on a screen becomes cheaper. The texture of life, the tactile experience, is becoming smooth glass.
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The rich do not live like this. The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming. Humans are more expensive, and rich people are willing and able to pay for them. Conspicuous human interaction — living without a phone for a day, quitting social networks and not answering email — has become a status symbol.
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All of this has led to a curious new reality: Human contact is becoming a luxury good.
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As more screens appear in the lives of the poor, screens are disappearing from the lives of the rich. The richer you are, the more you spend to be offscreen.
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