When reading about things like "almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/social-media-addiction-teenagers-study-phones

It is important to remember that #SocialMedia was designed to be addictive using science and techniques developed by universities like #Stanford and widely taught https://stanfordreview.org/how-stanford-profits-tech-addiction-social-media/

#SurveillanceCapitalism and #AddictiveSoftware came from the same forces as generated the dominant forms of explotation in the 20th century.