YouTube's educational value can be unmatched, but it doesn't follow that 99% of time spent on YouTube is educational or even useful. I'd bet the ratio of time

YouTube's educational value can be unmatched, but it doesn't follow that 99% of time spent on YouTube is educational or even useful. I'd bet the ratio of time I have spent legit learning something useful vs just using it as distraction/entertainment ("educational" channels are often just entertainment for nerds like us)/background, it has to be something like 1000 to 1. I wouldn't need to replace the 999 at all. I guess I would read books a bit more, probably get a lot more done on personal projects, go out a bit more etc. Not clear at all my life would be worse off except in that pinch where I need to know how to disassemble & fix the thing, right now.