Modern western society isolates the young and the old, leaving them with no idea of anything to want except wealth.

The statistics cited are from the UK, but I expect it is true in the US as well.

When hippies wished to live in communes, it had to be a rejection of the beginnings of this. The communes failed because just wishing isn't enough to make a new social system succeed.

The loneliness of old people, many of whom had children, shows that having children is not a solution.

Being part of some other sort of community, such as a political activist community that defends people who are being exploited, can make your life a lot less lonely as well as helping others.