I'm sympathetic to your point, but at some point other people ruining themselves degrades your experience as well.

I don't gamble and in theory don't care if others do. But prediction markets are affecting sports and possibly governance as well in obviously negative ways.

For this specific issue - the more functionally illiterate, zero-attention-span humans we create, the worse all of our lives will become.

People are complaining about products engineered to be as addictive as possible, we're talking about something more than simple self control

> some folks aren't able to control themselves

I get that there are some people who have anomalous abilities to self control, and i understand that they might have a hard time empathizing with those of us that dont have that level of control. However to chalk up the solution as be a better person, when in reality corporations are spending billions on research and design of addictive products is just short sighted.

We saw the same thing with smoking. Plenty of people said "meh, why cant the smoker just quit, I did". Which missed the point. The tabacco companies knew if they could get kids smoking at a young age it was less likely they'd ever quit.

Its naive to assume that the social media companies are not doing the exact same thing.

Yes there is room for individual accountability, but also we need to be realistic about the amount of energy that is being spent subverting people's attention and self control.