Re:A Zoomer explains her generation's malaise to older gener...
by nonrandomstring on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:00PM
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> taking away the phone will solve everything (it won't).
Very true. Indeed, with my understanding of addiction one thing I fear
we'd have to endure with a step change - like a backlash where
millions of young people dump their phones, or an large scale failure
of technology, is that they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
Plunged from a superficially meaningful digital holding-pen into an
empty real world would be insane. Positive cultural change has to
happen slowly enough.
> The author of OP's link has a net worth of $1.5 million. She
absolutely has no idea of the problems non-millionaire zoomers have.
I don't believe wealth is a factor in understanding per se. To my
eyes, the poverty of life that accompanies a smartphone lifestyle is
equally hurtful to rich and poor alike.
Very true. Indeed, with my understanding of addiction one thing I fear we'd have to endure with a step change - like a backlash where millions of young people dump their phones, or an large scale failure of technology, is that they wouldn't know what to do with themselves. Plunged from a superficially meaningful digital holding-pen into an empty real world would be insane. Positive cultural change has to happen slowly enough.
> The author of OP's link has a net worth of $1.5 million. She absolutely has no idea of the problems non-millionaire zoomers have.
I don't believe wealth is a factor in understanding per se. To my eyes, the poverty of life that accompanies a smartphone lifestyle is equally hurtful to rich and poor alike.