cool thing in the linked text: individualism was never really a choice. it was always pushed down upon americans by the corporate magnates and their foot soldiers and cronies. it is not the next step in civilizational evolution as some western chauvinists think.

Does that graph include households with adult children? Who would be living alone if they could afford it. Because the situation is probably even more stark than that in reality. (I don’t wanna trudge through census data)