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by htk 892 days ago
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There's always someone complaining about good things being too good and people lose on the rest because of it. What about letting people have some personal responsibility?

Instead of complaining about games being too immersive, doom scrolling being too addictive etc, how about reminding people to make conscious decisions on how they spend their time and attention?

We're living in the era of external responsibility, every problem one has is caused by someone else.

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1 comments

I think you realize how tone deaf you come off when you ignore the fact that social media and gaming companies have spent the past two decades hiring the greatest minds in psychology and engineering to hack minds and get them addicted to their products, but yeah, the problem is totally a lack of bootstraps.