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Uhh people spend like 8 hours on average on their phones now, that was most definitely not the case when I was growing up.
People used to spend more time on the couch watching broadcast TV!
Bring it back!
If people brought their tv to every event and outing ever I'd have the same criticism
And television isn't tailored to each individual with content engineered to make sure they don't look away for as long as possible
Just make cell phones heavier.
Problem solved
i was playing console games for 10 hours a day in the 80s and 90s
Functionally very different things. Those old games weren't programmed to feed you a never-ending stream of content that's designed to provoke ever more extreme reactions from you to keep you engaged with the feed. Did they provoke extreme reactions? Maybe, but that's more because they needed to be hard enough that you couldn't finish them during a rental period and you had to buy them.
Not the saem