The summary is that traditional sources of meaning — marriage, friends, patriotism, career, childbearing, and faith — are now devalued, and cell phones offer in their place corporate solutions that are harmful.

As can be expected, Haidt and the poster argue that solutions are found at the level of the cell phone and limiting access to it, rather than improvements at the social level where the boomer, gen x, and increasingly millennial generations continue to fail to deliver meaning through the aforementioned institutions.

If Gen Z could look to society and especially older generations for

- interpersonal relationships based on cooperation rather than competition

- work that was meaningfully compensated rather than exploitative

- governments that were responsive to their constituents rather than self-serving

- social support systems that reward rather than punish parenting, or

- religious institutions that delivered compassion and moral goodness rather than prejudice and contempt,

then I think it could be argued that folks could find meaning in these institutions instead of behind a phone screen. Until then the complaints about social decay are almost insulting.