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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Disclaimer, not an American. I’m answering with my perspective for what it’s worth and because no one else has.

    From what I’m able to see here, there’s a lot of Americans who are doing absolutely fine. Many of them. Seems there’s enough who are that the ones who complain about their unreasonable treatment don’t have enough voice to change things.

    It’s true that every human society has rich and poor, the ones with abundance and those who struggle. The weird part from where I’m standing is that not every Human society declares itself the Greatest country in the world.

    I wonder how much that kind of propaganda impacts on people’s ability to see the flaws and make the changes. Seems many Americans don’t even see the systemic problems there as problems. They see the people struggling as the problem.

    When I hear stories of things like children who refuse to swear an oath of loyalty every morning being shamed and ostracised I really do fear for their ability to be honest with each other.









  • The reason is because of the bias in the studies themselves.

    For example, there’s more studies showing that internet addiction is bad for teenagers because more studies have been run on teenagers.

    Addiction of any kind of harmful to all age groups. The ways in which it impacts people depends on their life circumstances. For example, older people are more likely to lose a job or a marriage due to addiction than a teenager is, that’s not because of the nature of their addiction.

    The simplest explanation is that some teenagers are depressed or otherwise struggling and turn to social media and internet because that’s what they have to help them cope. It’s a natural correlation, this study is saying that we don’t have the evidence to imply causation.

    It’s easy for some people, especially those unfamiliar with online activities and particularly those who don’t value online activity, to see the correlation and blame. This is really helpful as it means they can avoid addressing the cause of the initial depression.