The Dumbphone Boom Is Real
11th April 2024
BLUF:
- They were spending too much time on their phones and, like children, didn’t have the willpower to cut it down or cut it out.
- They couldn’t get what they considered to be an adequate amount of information on ‘dumb phones’.
- They decided to start a side hustle supplying ‘dumb phones’ and information to people similarly situated.
You can read the whole article if you like–The New Yorker has good writing if it has nothing else–but the whole situation is merely further confirmation of the mental neoteny that pervades modern American society.
On the other hand, their pivot to entrepreneurship is encouraging. Apparently the American spirit is not dead, merely deeply hidden; it will arise when conditions warrant.