Comment by sytelus

More than a mental health crisis or go outside more, the biggest harm that social+smartphone has ever done is end of creating things. The new generation is spending huge amount of time in consumption and very little in creation. This is going to be a boon for the producers (book writers, movie makers etc) who will be in short supply for much larger consumption crowd. This will eventually be reflected in massive wealth gap where someone mints out large some of money out of 5 minute YouTube video becoming money sinks and while consumption crowd simply becomes money sources.