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"Even today I can burn hours clicking around the Wii"

I mean, the menu's fine but its not that exciting

So you're an antivaxxer? That makes a little more sense now.

The UK and US maybe. I'm not so sure about all governments around the world.

And so do you not trust health advice from the WHO? Do you do your own controlled trials instead?

Corporations are not in the role of bad cop, they exist to exploit us for profit and have many nasty tactics they can use to do that. To put the blame at the feet of individuals for that exploitation underestimated how much power they have.

The state can, at least in theory, be structured to serve rather than exploit us.

On top of that, the idea that individuals have the time, energy, or inclination to completely manage their own "reality" rather than relying on external authorities is daft imo. At some point we need to trust and rely on eachother and there are various entities beyond nation states that are set up specifically for that too.

Are the social media companies not meddling with our desires through all the psychological tricks they use? I think their overreach should be feared as much as, if not more than, state overreach.

With that I agree. But it comes down as society as a whole to create that environment for children, not individual parenting.

I can already hear people piss and moan about censorship then too though.

If you think youre such a great parent that you or your kid is safe from the insidious danger of social media, I think youre being naive.

Half of me worries about the nanny/surveillance state aspect of this.

Half of me wants us to ban it for adults too.

Well isnt the point humans wouldn't need to do basically anything?

It would be 'desirable' because the value is in the product of the labour not the labour itself. (Of course the resulting dystopian hellscape might be considered undesirable)