Good, people need to stop feeling bad about not always being productive.

It's not about productivity.

It's about going back to it even if you don't really want to and have better (potentially not productive fun) things to do.

It's when you sleep time gets (regular) reduced noticable because you couldn't stop.

It's when you make excuses to yourself why it's fine to watch more all the time.

It's when you end up spending hours consuming media even through it overall doesn't make you feel better or good at all and you know that.

*It's when it reduces you quality of live and you still do it without being forced to.*

It’s not about being productive but about not having fulfilling activities. If the internet is fulfilling for you great, but there a point where the addiction takes away other fulfilling activities.

No they don’t. It’s bad to be a workaholic sure, but the universe is an unforgiving place and we’re here only to be productive. This is a truth regardless of your metaphysical beliefs.

What people need is to make sure they’re not being overly productive at one thing while letting other things drift away.

> we’re here only to be productive

The heat death of the universe will destroy anything you do with your life and will erase any possibility of it being recorded or remembered.

So… enjoy life. All you have is the current moment. Productivity - especially to enrich someone else - is a fool’s game.

Be as productive as you need to to enjoy life.

>but the universe is an unforgiving place

yes

>and we’re here only to be productive

how did you make this jump? the universe doesn't care in the slightest how you spend your time or what you do. we're not here to anything. we're utterly insignificant and our life is devoid of meaning. you can choose to fill it with fulfillment by some definition of producing something. I really don't care. I just think it's sad to define your life in relation to some arbitrary definition of your externally bounded output. but by all means, if that's what you want...

just don't say it's The Way of The Universe. That's just wrong.

This is way different though. The internet is a powerful tool and we need it: forums and media are not things we need. I doubt you’re addicted to the productive spheres of the internet (although I am addicted to discovering new domains and improving my mathematical knowledge: that may be considered “productive.”)