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This makes me terribly sad for the TikTok generation to enter their 40s. I’m in my 30s and don’t use social media, and I’m already saddened by the amount of my life algorithms have wasted

Either that or the next generation will develop multitasking abilities we cannot even comprehend as we become the sour elders.

Kids this days...

And the obligatory https://xkcd.com/1227/

That case is already here.. it's called ADHD that is hardly to be called an unusual state of the mind if 80% people around you start claiming they are neuro-diverse just to avoid a sticker label.

Multitasking well maybe... but at a really strong mental consequence for the surrounding environment that likes to... slow down, actually.

Time isn’t really a currency though because you have no option not to spend it. I’ve never really understood this analogy.

> Then comes that other discovery

A lot of us don't get it until the first big loss.