'Addiction' depends on circumstances. If you're lucky enough to be able to spend copious amounts of time online, good for you. I know for me, I don't have that opportunity. There's too much other stuff hampering my ability to get online like kids, marriage, chores, other hobbies, work, etc
I am not the lucky one, you are. My life is a sick joke, meanwhile you by all traditional measures have it made if you have all that.
If I didn't have my job I'd have literally nothing going for me. When I say this has cost me oppertunites I don't mean small ones, I mean even things like potential relationships. Everything has always come second to this issue.
Is there a reason to assume the traditional measures are, in fact, the correct ones to be using?
Ahh, so a bias for values that were evolutionarily successful? I can kind of see the utility there.
Would this hypothetical system take into account the dominance of the societies in question, or is it just specifically how long they've survived/been stable?