Half of the ten largest companies in the world are in the business of making people's relationship with technology addictive.

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• A builder asked to addict users should leave, because there are always other jobs and no amount of money is worth tearing up the fabric of a society. TFTony Fadell7 Jun 2026Addiction
• Addiction can happen to anyone, through a subtle process whose bonds are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken CMCharlie Munger13 Jun 1986Addiction
• Addiction is better understood as a symptom of trauma, social disconnection, depression or economic distress than as a disease in itself. MPMichael Pollan9 Jul 2021Addiction
• Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain. GMGabor Mate5 Apr 2017Addiction
• Addictions let you engage in fake play and fake work. NRNaval Ravikant12 Mar 2021Addiction

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