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Although implementation may be ugly and/ or shocking - the concept in itself has interesting roots.

Although social media in itself is vital - we are seeing more usage of it correlates with negative behavior pattern (as is excessive tv watching).

Should govt intervene?

They do intervene for substance addiction...

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Government intervention and regulation of substance use has always been motivated by a much deeper agenda, generally economic in one way or another. The idea of taxing speech makes me uneasy.

If you watched people spending time with their friends, you could probably see the same patterns. Most human behavior is not productive. It's been that way for a long time.

People spending time with their friends is not productive?

Not any less than spending time on social media or games.

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