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The idea of productizing tech addiction recovery funded by the VCs which fund tech addiction enabling products seems slightly disingenuous.

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VCs invest to make money, and I just can't see what the revenue model would be. There's no ad revenue to be had in convincing people to stop looking at their phones.

Get people to pay for an app? Any price other than free means crossing a pretty major psychological barrier.

Parents would pay. I'm a parent and have already paid for services to help me manage my kids phone addiction

People actually pay a lot of money for meditation retreats, which are basically just camps where you get to stop looking at Twitter for a while.

It's like fast food and soda companies sponsoring efforts against obesity :-).

It's more like the creator and distributor of a popular opioid turning around and selling the drugs that help you wean off.

Oh wait...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/t...

Read Michael Pollan's books and essays about the "healthy" food market, and marketing "magic ingredients" that make factory junk food "healthy". Omega-3! Chia seeds! Vitamins!

I always get mad when people talk about "superfoods" and think that everything with Quinoa is good for you.

Reminds me of this tweet:

SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot

https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lan...

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