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I’m glad to see this getting ridiculed on this forum. I would be happy to see more critique of the attitude that the problems created by irresponsible technology can be solved with more technology.

The driver of the “phone addiction” problem is obviously direct economics. Companies are organized around profit, and more phone time means more profit (especially in ad-driven models like Facebook).

So how about addressing the problems by looking at root causes?

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There is also the question of how many people who have a tech addiction really care. Some people like staring at constant news feeds of garbage as opposed to leaving their couch and interacting with the world. Just like some people like smoking, and similarly there will always be companies more than happy to profit from your addiction.

Exactly, so what if a company/product's source of profit was helping people get off their phones?

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