stackyFACTSYour social circle only exists because mutual benefit outweighs the sheer annoyance of human interaction.
Your social circle only exists because mutual benefit outweighs the sheer annoyance of human interaction. Unlike a poker match where one winner guarantees a loser, friendships operate on synergistic models where both parties extract emotional or physical utility simultaneously. The exact second a relationship slides from generating mutual surplus to being a strictly draining extraction, the natural optimization move is ghosting.
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