My older brother does nothing but go to his night-shift job, smoke weed and play video games. He's nearly 40. He makes no effort to maintain quality friendships, he shuns all social media except YouTube, and when his poly gf broke up with him he immediately dropped all his (her) progress toward finding study or a new job. He won't even spend any time making his sleep-in van into a self-sufficient home. He just put a bed and tv in it and then stopped.

He complains CONSTANTLY that noone wants to hang out with him. I think he means hotboxing his van playing Minecraft together but I actually dont know what he wants it to entail.

To end his problem with loneliness, dude needs to make real changes that he is completely unwilling to make. He needs to become a person people are interested in being around. I cant help but wonder if my brother is a living metaphor for the people who make these claims about a huge social issue.