Americans are suffering illness and death due tothe level ofdisconnectionfrom other people. The amount of direct contactwith other people has been decreasing since the 1970s.The essay "Bowling Alone" took note of this development in 1995, but ithas continued since then.By going to the store to buy things, you can have a little more socialcontact with a variety of people — and you can pay cashand resist surveillance capitalism.