The proposed solution that at least 54% of this village have recognized is that the internet has really eroded societal bonds. The optimization of everything, coupled with the easy on-demand connection provided by phones is a big problem for society. It's like eating cake all the time, its easy and feels good in the moment but it will likely have negative societal impacts.
I'll speak for America, but I am sure it isn't unique here. The optimization of everything to short term profit & loss coupled with phones has made society pretty unpleasant.
- Grocery stores have removed handles from bags and most tellers.
- Extremely uniform big box stores are primarily all that are left
- Shopping is fully online
- Workers have been reduced as much as possible to automata in low status jobs.
- Due to the quality and quantity of data, of all goods are priced to the absolute max society can bear and wages are suppressed to the extent possible as well.
- Connection with society is primarily done through a screen and id ephemeral
I could go on. The point is that in concert, this has seriously changed our society even if any single change alone would be positive.
Phones are simply a symptom of a society that is lonely and disconnected and a biological psychology that makes adaptation to this change hard/impossible. It's not neccesarily negative, but we will see how this shapes society when gen-z and gen alpha are in their 40s.