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An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you

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Re: An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you

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Because he’s Indian, writing a message specifically targeting Indian youth, in an Indian paper. Please take your “what about” somewhere productive.

icymi, i was trying to be rhetorical. Please take your holier-than-thou sanctimony somewhere productive.

I didn't miss it, I just disagree with your attitude.

https://xkcd.com/2368/

Re: An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you

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Doom scrolling is a terrifying problem for me, personally. I have only recently realized just how bad it is. I have recently gotten headfirst back into turntablism/vinyl DJ’ing, and leaving my iPhone in my room, just wearing my Apple Watch with me to tell the time and to do a quick voice reply to someone if it’s important enough. I’m trying to start reading books again. It’s scarily hard to keep that level of attenti…

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Glad I didn't know that, and I will continue pretending I did not. :P

Re: An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you

#143
post #89

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Well, clearly not having money is not comparable to not having a phone. But you are just proving the OP original article. Why not just try something different rather than pointlessly arguing about the intricacies of it all on the internet

Is it different? You have posted the same ‘intricacies on the Internet’ article several times on this page already, so perhaps you should consider your own advice? Not having money is comparable to not having a phone - my phone is my money and it is far better at being money than the plastic in my wallet. You should give ‘The Pessimists Archive’ a listen. You might realize why hearing the same argument about why you…

Yikes - that podcast is funded by the Koch Brothers.
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