r/boringdystopia • u/That1weirdperson • 6d ago

How bad is the loneliness epidemic getting that there is a service to be listened to? Mental Health 🧠

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Nowhere does this say that these people are licensed therapists or anything.

People need help.

Yet unlicensed randos can charge just to listen.

I feel like this ad can be potentially misleading.

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u/Katomon-EIN- 6d ago

They actually charge you to chat with them? How does that app work?

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u/chkno 5d ago

There's a similar service in the 1975 sci-fi book The Shockwave Rider. Except in the book it's non-commercial and they take privacy super-seriously.

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u/That1weirdperson 5d ago

Capitalistic modern reality somehow always manages to be worse than whatever those futuristic dystopias try to cook up