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And not to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole - I think this is more of a blind "race to the bottom" scenario - but it makes a lot more money for the rent-seeking class when we're socially isolated. A couple shares a house/apartment, shares chores, may even be able to share a car. When they break up, that's now 2 apartments, 2 cars, individual trips for everything, etc.
It's not quite that clean of course, and plenty of folks live with roommates. But there's definitely a perverse economic incentive to keep us detached from community and partnership, and everything from AI/social media/online dating to the gender/culture wars seems to be pushing us farther in that direction.