The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To Make Adult Friends Now

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There’s been lots of talk in recent years about the difficulty of making new friends in our modern era once you’re out of college, and about the loneliness epidemic at large. While money (or lack of it) affects so much of our day to day lives, you might be surprised at just how much of our current financial issues (individually and societally) are contributing to our friendship woes. So, what’s really going on here? And… is there anything we can do about it?! Let’s take a closer look at four of the biggest money-related obstacles to building friendships in adulthood, and then we’ll dig into some ways people are finding solutions!

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00:00 Intro
00:47 Crushed for time (& energy...)
04:39 Can't afford to do anything
06:01 Thanks to Monarch Money!
07:14 The loss of third spaces
09:31 The good & bad of social media...
11:07 We can't afford *not* to have community

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Films & shows mentioned/shown in this video:
Arrested Development, Broad City, Friends, Gilmore Girls, Insecure, New Girl, Succession, The Devil Wears Prada, The White Lotus, Ugly Betty, Bo Burnham: Inside, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Cheers, Clueless, Dumb Money, Edward Scissorhands, ExtraOrdianary, He's All That, How I Met Your Mother, Only Murders in the Building, Rye Lane, Saved by the Bell, Set It Up, Shiva Baby, Superstore, The Craft, The Sx Lives of College Girls, Too Much, Triangle of Sadness, Industry, The Office

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