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> Nothing stops you from having a healthy, limited relationship with the technology you have, however you define that to be. Plenty does. There's a trend in co
by palmotea 10mo ago
> Nothing stops you from having a healthy, limited relationship with the technology you have, however you define that to be.
Plenty does. There's a trend in consumer technology to remove friction, like that's always a good thing, but it isn't. Sometimes an inherent limit it what's needed to keep some natural impulse in check. Remove the limit, and the impulse becomes problematic.
And that's not to mention some technology is literally designed to be addictive, to hit the same psychological buttons as gambling.
Basically, a lot of technology turns things into problems of self-control, but people only have so much. It's not reasonable to blame them for not having more self-control than they ever needed to have before.