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Comment by quickthrower2 | Hacker News Reader

Eating shit and scrolling is enjoyable though, right? It just doesn’t sound as socially acceptable to admit it.

Being manipulated by greedy corporations into spending the bulk of your life in a human Skinner Box is enjoyable? Stop deluding yourself.

enjoying something != life fullfilment

Our biology enjoys those dopamine hits

Enjoyable in the chemical sense. It triggers your brain's reward pathways via dopamine just like anything else you enjoy.

I think you can enjoy some potato chips and some short videos, but I have my doubts about how many you can consume in a row while maintaining enjoyment.

My experience is that the enjoyment one feels with the first few bites quickly transforms from seeking the pleasure of continuing, into avoiding the pain of stopping.

If you could wave a magic wand and give someone a day to do whatever they want to do no one would be choosing chips and TikTok.

I don't think many people really enjoy it. It's just less painful than other things, or they don't have the resources to do what they actually want to do, or their choice requires something that's not possible right now... Chips and TikTok is the fallback, not the first choice.

I wonder why we find life so painful that we find "chips and TikTok" as an acceptable default.

What’s the issue with "chips and TikTok"? It’s virtually free, requires no new equipement and can be done anywhere. Depending on how your feed is curated, you can learn more things in five minutes on TikTok than the same duration on HN or any other website.

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