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[–] Lauchs 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A lot of those are problems caused by phones regardless of whether one uses one themselves.

But for the personal ones, there are self aware addicts of all kinds. Smokers know cigarettes are killing them, complain about them, sometimes even hate them but can't stop.

Edit: pair o words

[–] Nurse_Robot 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a fair and well measured response. It begs the question of what we can do as individuals, and when it comes to smart phones I don't think there's much.

[–] Lauchs 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks, I basically agree with you.

Like most of the tragic collective action problems (phones, climate change, sweatshops etc) I'm just trying to moderate as best I can for my own soul/health and try not to be too sad about it.