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Re:YouTube Addiction by sysadm1n on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:02PM (#34382961)
> I am seriously addicted to the internet

'Addiction' depends on circumstances. If you're lucky enough to be able to spend copious amounts of time online, good for you. I know for me, I don't have that opportunity. There's too much other stuff hampering my ability to get online like kids, marriage, chores, other hobbies, work, etc

Re:YouTube Addiction by cpsns on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:11PM (#34383068)
> If you're lucky enough to be able to spend copious amounts of time online, good for you.

I am not the lucky one, you are. My life is a sick joke, meanwhile you by all traditional measures have it made if you have all that.

If I didn't have my job I'd have literally nothing going for me. When I say this has cost me oppertunites I don't mean small ones, I mean even things like potential relationships. Everything has always come second to this issue.

Re:YouTube Addiction by Kamq on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:28PM (#34383260)
> by all traditional measures

Is there a reason to assume the traditional measures are, in fact, the correct ones to be using?

Re:YouTube Addiction by annyeonghada on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:52AM (#34389022)
Maybe the fact that they were used by seemingly very different society for thousand of years and society who did enforce them were more stable and successful? The hubris of modern people to think they are so enlightened they can engineer society to fit they ideological views as if humans were mere economical units.
Re:YouTube Addiction by Kamq on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:14PM (#34391540)
> seemingly very different society for thousand of years and society who did enforce them were more stable and successful

Ahh, so a bias for values that were evolutionarily successful? I can kind of see the utility there.

Would this hypothetical system take into account the dominance of the societies in question, or is it just specifically how long they've survived/been stable?