Your take is probably the mainstream take.
That the user driver would prefer I shut up.
That the mcdonalds worker sees an interaction as a distraction.

My take is that that user driver or check out operator,  if they carry that attitude to their home are going to find their intimate partner is a distraction. That conversation disrupts their doom scrolling which is way more entertaining

Iike I say, if you are a parking attendant or a Mecca's worker, you can smoke a little dope, spend the day in a durr state and learn nothing
Or
You can see every interaction as a chance to work on your social skills, beam.out positive energy. Try to find setting funny in every interaction. Practice your vocal projection and improve .01 % per day .

You have the right to project a great collaborative vibe.
You do not have the right to a result.
Again this will teach you to not care about the opinions of others and to be your own person.
One of one.


It is my belief, people will continue to be isolated, numbing their pain with phones, drugs anti depressants porn and Netflix and soon sex robots.

People will lose the ability of social.interaction and they will CRAVE it.

AI  will do everything else but it can't do that in a genuinely human way.

So learning the skills of this and practising them at every opportunity will be key to joy.

I still get it in the bush but when I go to town. The peoples eyes are dead, they are sleep walking zombies. A lot of them. You say hi and they mumble like a homeless person.

Practising interactions is done for your own benefit
I don't think most of them can be helped.
But you lose nothing by trying.
And the odd interaction works and gives you a download of energy. I think it's biological.
I don't think all the sugar fat porn pot grog trinkets Netflix and tiktoks in the world can connect you to source energy ad much as one genuine collaborative human interaction