I think we are just going in full circle with relationships. Like maybe this idea of them being transactional was akin to past times during the hardships of labor and keeping up in a constant state of terror because of violence. Maybe all the things happening around have kicked back some of that instinct.
But it is true that financial stability plays an important role on keeping a relationship going smoothly. It isn't all of it, but money is important in life just as it is living.
Though social media tends to be a factor accelerating this degradation of relationships into an attention based economy, it might be arguable that previous generations had their own ways of going spoiled on this parts of their lives. The thing is that globalization wasn't actually there to show us how thing transpire everywhere.
Maybe we are going full circle, but is that the way we want to go? Do we want to go back to the way things were, or should we be advancing forward.
That's the problem with our kin. It doesn't matter if we have the best way to keep records of the past, our own short memories plays on that's recurring theme of forgetting what's been done before.
Maybe we'll find the way to live forward. But who knows what "forward" is?