A massive amount of time is wasted on social media.
Visit the tiktok / instagram profile of any young person and you will notice thousands of hours invested in it.
It's just natural nothing else will be produced.
Visit the tiktok / instagram profile of any young person and you will notice thousands of hours invested in it.
It's just natural nothing else will be produced.
The opportunity cost alone of all those hours is staggering, without getting into the issues with self esteem, 'brain rot' or the fact that young people increasingly don't dare dance or do hobbies in public because they live in a panopticon of the mind, where everything you do or observe being done is assumed to be either performatively done for an audience, or involves massive personal risk of being surreptitiously recorded for the mockery and amusement of thousands of strangers.
Then there's the gambling, the body image issues, the parasocial influencer grifts... it's no wonder they're feeling burned out and demoralized. They live in a surveillance casino with no exits.