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> Generally people have a good handle on what's good and what's bad for them

Hard disagree, the cultural norms play a huge role and the changes are slow. I'm like 95% sure the unabated addiction to social media so prevalent nowadays will be regarded similarly to how smoking and drinking is seen now.

We should be really extrapolating what we know about tobacco now and the things they claimed in the past towards currently relevant issues e.g. "Facebook papers"-type materials.




Most people it seems so know social media is bad for them. But people knowingly use many things that are bad for themselves.


Social media, hyper-palatable ultra-processed "foods" (see RJR Nabisco), etc.




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