the average 18 year old in the united states is on pace to spend 93% of their free time looking at a screen scrolling is an epidemic

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Kingbee 6 days ago
That's insane. Nature's calling.
What if we change the UI so instead crolling you have to flip pages? Or tap links? I jest, mostly just because I read books on my phone, and I don't tend to think reading a book on my phone is the same as doomscrolling. We may be getting sucked into dopamine sinks more often, but at the same time, the screens are getting more useful...
eh, not necessarily screen time spent on computers compared to phones, and you'll see big differences in time spent consuming scrollable content
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Krp617 6 days ago
My neck hurts just reading this
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Insólito 6 days ago
The revolution will start when the people look to screen to find what they really needs. The question is : What do you really need ? Watch tv ? Ohhh Gosh !
Time Chain's avatar
Time Chain 6 days ago
You can tell the audience because he starts at 18 and mentions traveling the world. As you get older you know how unimportant travel (especially the the corrupt 3rd world) is and how it detracts from more important life goals.
So glad I grew up when I did. After school every day was outside until the street lights came on. Even more outside time on the weekends. I’m lucky I know that. 🦅
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kyle-moore 6 days ago
Like what? Living in the totalitarian 1st world to pay tax to ensure the 3rd world leaders get there bribes?
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kyle-moore 6 days ago
Most of my screen time is done at work or on the toilet so you just have to integrate correctly
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Gio 6 days ago
Scrolling + sugar = de-civilization
it is a massive problem 1) i have an addiction myself, working on it 2) extra important when raising children 3) i think we can build apps that provide healthier experiences
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Fabian 6 days ago
But we are doing it anyway. The really rich - they don’t have a phone by their side.
Time Chain's avatar
Time Chain 6 days ago
You have to live somewhere and at least in the fiat first world, you have options and can buy Bitcoin. In the 3rd world there is no wealth or income for you to store.
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kyle-moore 6 days ago
So the play is obvious then. Do like the immigrant. Earn in the states in your younger years and then have a family out side of the surveillance grid once you've secured the bag.
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Time Chain 6 days ago
Successful people do not retire or leave the States for inferior and less free places. American wealth has always been built by those courageous enough to accept the reality that you keep progressing and stacking and don't abandon ship as soon as things appear good. Never sell out, only perpetually buy in.
So he's conflating looking at TikTok with all the computer work many of us do for work. Building things, researching, publishing....
This is human fud bro. I refuse to let the millennials turn into another boomer generation. If your kids are looking at slop on screens, give them something more interesting to do. Merry Christmas.
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kyle-moore 5 days ago
Lol bro the south is free im practice while the north is free on paper.... Those who are successful do leave the states all the time. Heard of capital controls? Read the sovereign individual?
Time Chain's avatar
Time Chain 5 days ago
Could be. The freedom may be on paper, but real freedom comes from within assuming you can earn fairly and save fairly. Bitcoin avoids capital controls (for the most part).
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This is Andy 5 days ago
Ive been staring at screens since like 1995. I'm doing fine. The kids will be fine. File this away for the pessimists archive twitter to pull out in 30 years.
It’s what they are looking at that is the problem! It’s that quantity versus quality thing again. I remember starting college in 1995 where we had a dedicated ‘internet’ room where you could get online. When I think about, the technology has changed but the people have not