It's the Proximity Stupid!

Over the years of corporatism, there has been a loss in the sense of value for proximal trade relationships, value exchange, or whatever you want to call business. The devaluing of service and community in exchange for a speedy personal experience creates cavernous social and economic gaps in the immediate proximity.
Can the way we look at things have an exponentially negative effect due to a narrative we project coupled with the cost of convenience? Is there an anti-consciousness dynamo happening there?
Following is some text I read during the podcast.
Written in 2013: I wrote a Character for a book. He was a retired professor. He would read his brief lectures on the local community radio station on Sundays. This is one of his little speeches. (complete info-> https://commercialherschel.substack.com/i/140978169/illusions-in-economics-vs-the-natural-phenomenon-of-exchange )