{"id":16193,"date":"2024-10-13T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T06:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/can-you-resist-all-the-addictions-modern-life-throws-at-you-only-if-youre-rich-enough-martha-gill\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T06:37:52","slug":"can-you-resist-all-the-addictions-modern-life-throws-at-you-only-if-youre-rich-enough-martha-gill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/can-you-resist-all-the-addictions-modern-life-throws-at-you-only-if-youre-rich-enough-martha-gill\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you resist all the addictions modern life throws at you? Only if you\u2019re rich enough | Martha Gill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freedom from the temptations pushed at us on a daily basis is now a class issue<\/p>\n

They are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more than enough food, leisure time and boredom, and without the life-or-death excitement that kept our ancestors busy.<\/p>\n

We could perhaps think of our rising addiction problems as something like a peacock\u2019s tail or companionable parasite \u2013 the costly signal that we no longer need to strain every nerve\u00a0to stay alive. Only a species that is this superfluously good at survival\u00a0could afford to hack its own anti-survival neural circuitry, targeting the pathways that instead\u00a0make it more likely to die. Problems of success are harder, not easier, to deal with, of course \u2013 you wouldn\u2019t want to reverse the conditions that got us here. Releasing wolves back among us is not the right policy for tackling TikTok-addled teens<\/a>. But the troubling fact is that a large portion of the economy now runs on addiction.<\/p>\n

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\nFreedom from the temptations pushed at us on a daily basis is now a class issue
\nThey are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more than enough food, leisure time and boredom, and without the life-or-death excitement that kept our ancestors busy.
\nWe could perhaps think of our rising addiction problems as something like a peacock\u2019s tail or companionable parasite \u2013 the costly signal that we no longer need to strain every nerve\u00a0to stay alive. Only a species that is this superfluously good at survival\u00a0could afford to hack its own anti-survival neural circuitry, targeting the pathways that instead\u00a0make it more likely to die. Problems of success are harder, not easier, to deal with, of course \u2013 you wouldn\u2019t want to reverse the conditions that got us here. Releasing wolves back among us is not the right policy for tackling TikTok-addled teens. But the troubling fact is that a large portion of the economy now runs on addiction. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freedom from the temptations pushed at us on a daily basis is now a class issue They are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more than enough food, leisure time and boredom, and without …<\/p>\n

Can you resist all the addictions modern life throws at you? Only if you\u2019re rich enough | Martha Gill<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}