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Before they went through the social stress test, they were taught to rethink their stress response as helpful.

I want to tell you about one of the most under-appreciated aspects of the stress response, and the idea is this: Stress makes you social.

It fine-tunes your brain's social instincts.

And the cool thing is that all of these physical benefits of oxytocin are enhanced by social contact and social support.

And herein is the greatest lesson of social media and mobile devices for all of us right now.

And it's kind of like she went into her social media settings and clicked on every option imaginable to make herself really, really insecure.

These bees spend the majority of their life cycle hidden in the ground or within a hollow stem and very few of these beautiful species have evolved highly social behavior like honeybees.

So how they come to collective decisions, and how they allocate their tasks and divide their labor, how they communicate where the flowers are, all of their collective social behaviors are mindblowing.

So bees have social healthcare.

It kills off bacteria and molds and other germs within the colony, and so it bolsters the colony health and their social immunity.

We've got education connected to storytelling triangulated next to social media.

But we don't see it on social media, right?

In my husband's homeland in the highlands of Sulawesi island in eastern Indonesia, there is a community of people that experience death not as a singular event but as a gradual social process.

In Tana Toraja, the most important social moments in people's lives, the focal points of social and cultural interaction are not weddings or births or even family dinners, but funerals.

And as an anthropologist, I see these differences in experience being rooted in the cultural and social world through which we define the phenomena around us.

So where we see an unquestionable reality, death as an irrefutable biological condition, Torajans see the expired corporeal form as part of a larger social genesis.

I think that Torajans socially recognize and culturally express what many of us feel to be true despite the widespread acceptance of the biomedical definition of death, and that is that our relationships with other humans, their impact on our social reality, doesn't cease with the termination of the physical processes of the body, that there's a period of transition as the relationship between the living and the dead is transformed but not ended.

So by having death as a part of the cultural and social fabric of life, people's everyday decisions about their health and healthcare are affected.

But I see something profoundly transformative in experiencing death as a social process and not just a biological one.

In reality, the relationship between the living and the dead has its own drama in the U.S. healthcare system, where decisions about how long to stretch the thread of life are made based on our emotional and social ties with the people around us, not just on medicine's ability to prolong life.

Perhaps one of the answers to the challenges that are facing the U.S. healthcare system, particularly in the end-of-life care, is as simple as a shift in perspective, and the shift in perspective in this case would be to look at the social life of every death.

It feels as if technologists have diverted us and enriched themselves with trivial toys, with things like iPhones and apps and social media, or algorithms that speed automated trading.

And so the marketization of everything sharpens the sting of inequality and its social and civic consequence.

There's a second reason apart from the worry about inequality, and it's this: with some social goods and practices, when market thinking and market values enter, they may change the meaning of those practices and crowd out attitudes and norms worth caring about.

But the same may not be true if we're talking about nonmaterial goods and social practices such as teaching and learning or engaging together in civic life.

Once we see that markets and commerce, when extended beyond the material domain, can change the character of the goods themselves, can change the meaning of the social practices, as in the example of teaching and learning, we have to ask where markets belong and where they don't, where they may actually undermine values and attitudes worth caring about.

But to have this debate, we have to do something we're not very good at, and that is to reason together in public about the value and the meaning of the social practices we prize, from our bodies to family life to personal relations to health to teaching and learning to civic life.

What matters is that people of different social backgrounds and different walks of life encounter one another, bump up against one another in the ordinary course of life, because this is what teaches us to negotiate and to abide our differences.

I'm not a social problem guy.

So why are we having so many problems with these social problems, and really is there any role for business, and if so, what is that role?

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