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I don’t think anyone’s arguing he shouldn’t be allowed to spend his life on TikTok, they’re just observing it’s not a choice they’d be making. Usually when peop

I don’t think anyone’s arguing he shouldn’t be allowed to spend his life on TikTok, they’re just observing it’s not a choice they’d be making. Usually when people gather on a Sunday to watch sports, the ritual is more about the coming together of friends than it is about the egg. I personally think there’s something profoundly sad about a wealthy, privileged, able-bodied young person with nothing to do but lie in bed and watch video after video of nothingness. I’d call it sad if they spent every afternoon with a bag of heroin too, but in neither case is it my position to tell them they can’t.

dimmke 4y ago
Hello, I am the author of this blog post. I found it while scrolling Hacker News. I think this thread is really interesting. I actually spend a good amount of my leisure time reading. But I don't think that one of those activities is more virtuous than the other. Here's screen caps of my phone usage for the last 2 weeks: https://imgur.com/a/XUaIxaF https://imgur.com/a/XUaIxaF Does this fit the dystopian picture you painted of how I live my life? What if instead of TikTok, the app was Netflix? would that be better? Should my overall screen time just be less in general? How should it change to make it less profoundly sad?