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CorrectHorseBat | 13 days ago

Why would we care about competivity where it doesn't benefit society? Addictive social media and wealth accumulation actively harm society

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meowface|13 days ago

Obviously one cannot simply accept any potential societal trade-off in favor of benefitting the economy, but going too far in the opposite direction eventually manifests as worse living standards for the average person, which is not beneficial to society.

gzread|12 days ago

How does banning intentionally addictive media-feed apps (they are not social media, they are parasocial at best) make society worse?

hparadiz|13 days ago

You have fun with that. Lemme know how it goes.

ilikecakeandpie|13 days ago

It's not like it's going real well here in the U.S.