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The idea of productizing tech addiction recovery funded by the VCs which fund tech addiction enabling products seems slightly disingenuous.

mrfredward 8y ago
VCs invest to make money, and I just can't see what the revenue model would be. There's no ad revenue to be had in convincing people to stop looking at their phones. Get people to pay for an app? Any price other than free means crossing a pretty major psychological barrier.
- harryf 8y ago
  Parents would pay. I'm a parent and have already paid for services to help me manage my kids phone addiction
- mbrock 8y ago
  People actually pay a lot of money for meditation retreats, which are basically just camps where you get to stop looking at Twitter for a while.
maxxxxx 8y ago
It's like fast food and soda companies sponsoring efforts against obesity :-).
- rargulati 8y ago
  It's more like the creator and distributor of a popular opioid turning around and selling the drugs that help you wean off. Oh wait... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/the-man-who-made-billions-of-dollars-from-oxycontin-is-pushing-a-drug-to-wean-addicts-off-opioids/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.952a99c7af39 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/t...
- beat 8y ago
  Read Michael Pollan's books and essays about the "healthy" food market, and marketing "magic ingredients" that make factory junk food "healthy". Omega-3! Chia seeds! Vitamins!
  - maxxxxx 8y ago
    I always get mad when people talk about "superfoods" and think that everything with Quinoa is good for you.
mbbutler 8y ago
Reminds me of this tweet: SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lang=en https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lan...

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The idea of productizing tech addiction recovery funded by the VCs which fund tech addiction enabling products seems slightly disingenuous.

by goplusplus 8y ago

mrfredward 8y ago
VCs invest to make money, and I just can't see what the revenue model would be. There's no ad revenue to be had in convincing people to stop looking at their phones. Get people to pay for an app? Any price other than free means crossing a pretty major psychological barrier.
- harryf 8y ago
  Parents would pay. I'm a parent and have already paid for services to help me manage my kids phone addiction
- mbrock 8y ago
  People actually pay a lot of money for meditation retreats, which are basically just camps where you get to stop looking at Twitter for a while.
maxxxxx 8y ago
It's like fast food and soda companies sponsoring efforts against obesity :-).
- rargulati 8y ago
  It's more like the creator and distributor of a popular opioid turning around and selling the drugs that help you wean off. Oh wait... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/the-man-who-made-billions-of-dollars-from-oxycontin-is-pushing-a-drug-to-wean-addicts-off-opioids/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.952a99c7af39 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/t...
- beat 8y ago
  Read Michael Pollan's books and essays about the "healthy" food market, and marketing "magic ingredients" that make factory junk food "healthy". Omega-3! Chia seeds! Vitamins!
  - maxxxxx 8y ago
    I always get mad when people talk about "superfoods" and think that everything with Quinoa is good for you.
mbbutler 8y ago
Reminds me of this tweet: SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lang=en https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lan...