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Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out.
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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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What you're doing here is subtly shifting the burden of phone addiction from software companies and phone manufacturers back onto end users.
You're glossing right over the fact that these teams have the very best software engineers, mechanical engineers, marketers, ad people, psychologists, and doctors for the purpose of making these endlessly scrolling apps as addictive and hard to avoid as possible.
I read your comment and think about the people who say "why are you depressed? Just go lift some weights. It all comes down to you"
It's more like "Why are you smoking cigarettes, stop buying cigarettes." It's addictive, well marketed and cool, and totally avoidable with some self discipline.
I wouldn't joke about people with an actual illness by telling them to toughen up, but we're not talking about that.
I thought you were being satirical at first but then I realized you genuinely believe an individual has zero personal responsibility whatsoever. Lemmy is filled with children.
This isn't the housing market or alcohol, just don't install or doom scroll social media. Jesus Christ, nanny state garbage.
Of course the burden is on both
Are you being serious?
Yes, saying "don't install social media apps if you don't like them" is the same as saying "lift weights to stop being depressed bro".
Your brain is too advanced and I cannot follow the steps you took to reach this conclusion.