Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times
Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times
The U-shaped curve that pegged youth and old age as the happiest times of life has changed
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It's always funny how triggered some people get whenever there's even the hint of a suggestion that their precious smartphones might be problematic.
Yeah it's the technological tool that's the problem. Definitely not rising cost of living, political insanity, civil unrest, climate change, the slow stripping away of rights, war. But sure the problem is some nerd swiping up on their phone or playing video games or watching Netflix or literally any other distraction from hell world.
Big tech are absolutely evil pieces of shit beholden to the economic system that allows them to thrive to the detriment of humanity, but to blame a magic brick in your pocket like "yeah THIS, this must be why everyone is miserable (especially youth because please think of the children)" is just an incredibly narrow way of thinking, albeit a somewhat effective boogeyman, to distract from gestures broadly how badly we've fucked up and how much worse it's getting as the century progresses.
I never said they were the sole problem or the only thing that has changed. You are proving my point here with your reaction.
I never implied that you said they were the only problem, nor am I proving your point because you perceive me to be "triggered" by the critique that aspects of phones are contributing factors, which I also did not disagree with. I'm simply stating that there are much larger and central factors that are contributing to unhappiness such as political, social, and economic instability, and that people who focus on other people's contrary reactions to the popular talking point that "phones are bad" are not having a discussion in good faith.
I never implied that you said they were the only problem, nor am I proving your point because you perceive me to be “triggered” by the critique that aspects of phones are contributing factors, which I also did not disagree with.
Why are you lying when we can all read your previous comment?
Yeah it’s the technological tool that’s the problem. Definitely not rising cost of living, political insanity, civil unrest, climate change, the slow stripping away of rights, war. But sure the problem is some nerd swiping up on their phone or playing video games or watching Netflix or literally any other distraction from hell world.
I'm not. That's just sorta how I talk, with a weird sarcastic passion for this stuff. I do understand why you find the presentation of what I said to be unclear, but really, it's just me being me.
This is just a reminder to be nice on our instance - this could be read as hostile or not extending good faith to the other user.
That's a profoundly ignorant perspective. Yeah, MAYBE cell phones play a role, but they're hardly the only thing that's changed about society.
I never said they were the sole problem or the only thing that has changed. You are proving my point here with your reaction.
"Someone things I'm wrong, therefore I'm right."
Yeah I've got literally nothing left to say to you.
Yes, yes, keep replying to tell me you have nothing left to tell me.
We've reached full Reddit replacement. Good job.
They both agreed with each other but were arguing with a strawman. One said
their precious smartphones might be problematic.
The other said
maybe smartphones play a role
Which mean the same thing.