Compulsive phone use stems from engineered coercion, not personal willpower failure

Evidence

And let us remember something basic. When your hand reaches, subconsciously, reflexively, for your phone (first thing in the morning, in the middle of a conversation, in the middle of a thought), or when you get stuck in an infinite scroll for an hour when you meant to look for a minute, that is not because you lack the personal willpower to escape. Rather, it is because trillions of dollars of military-grade research and technology, and thousands of the most highly trained and paid engineers in the world, are aligned behind overpowering your intention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 328

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reframes the failure locus from individual to infrastructure — the ground of the whole injustice diagnosis.