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The WHO has recently declared Smartphones a public health problem.

It's interesting that the real problem here seems to be addictive and abusive algorithms deployed by social media and gaming companies but that's not mentioned because those are where the capitalists make their money and it's forbidden to interfere with their profit generation or point that out.

Instead they paint it as this vague addiction of which social media is depicted as merely a small part but the real problem is the hardware, the Smartphones and too much use and access to them. And the real issue is people are distracted at work (and school) and productivity is suffering.

And the solution is bans on use of smartphones at schools and crackdowns on use at work because we can't have the proles enjoying the addictive treats we've made to distract them from their horrible lives while they're supposed to be earning us money, those are for while they're taking 2 hours in their commute to get to work or for while they're at home too exhausted to cook or get up off the couch.

Just an interesting observation I had. I will be the opposite of shocked when they try and make smartphone lockers at work a thing or implement AI in cameras that detects smartphone usage outside of breaks and applies penalties.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

yeah it's crazy how the pandemic put a smart device in front of every school aged child, we overhauled our infrastructure radically within a few years to support this. we demonstrated the technology age we're living in and how adaptable it is

but couple years later and we're trying to ban them from schools because of the addictive design we imposed upon them via usual capitalistic interests

shit like that makes me so depressed - we're living in the future. humans of the past could not comprehend what we live with. and we've designed it in such a fundamentally anti-human way that it's more of a danger to our health, physical and mental, than anything else