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Effect and the trend to accelerating loneliness can turn around to instead being accelerating social connection, the social connections with just crucial in late life. they are more valuable than money. they are more valuable as status. as important as those two things, are social connections in late life are even more valuable. >> yeah. i mean, i -- im a little bit skeptical only in the sense that you seem to me to be champagne problems. i mean, i imagine if youre not on top and youre strugglin...

Culture as to what it means to be happy? >> i think thats a huge part of it. i mean, weve overemphasized wealth and overemphasized status, and the trick, is those things are actually quite important. i strive for wealth. i strive for status. i -- i encourage everybody to do it. the -- the catch though is if you -- if you strive for those things, wealth and status and at the same time sacrifice social capital, youre making a grave error. the idea is to strive for all three because all three are v...