In fact, if you can't delete the app, there is nothing that can't be deleted.
Capitalism turns what we don't really need into what we think we need.
Think rationally: What are the most basic needs I really need? What are the non-essential needs that the business is selling to me?
Most of my time is spent on basic or non-essential needs?
Can basic needs be replaced by something other than this app?
I looked at the app on my phone:
WeChat: Basic needs: contact/chat with people; non-basic needs: public account push, related information. -->Delete all official accounts. Wouldn't it be better to use a dedicated website for information?
Instagram: basic needs: contact with friends; non-basic needs: friends' posts and feeds --> delete the app and replace it with text messages. Wouldn't it be better to connect with friends face-to-face?
Xiaohongshu: Basic needs: see experience/recommendations; non-basic needs: feed --> delete the app, if you have any problems, you can use Baidu/Google.
Zhihu: Basic needs: find answers to questions; non-basic needs: feed --> delete the app, if you have any questions, you can use Baidu/Google.
(Same for other software)
Time limit? All I can say is, don't trust your own willpower.
Before you fantasize about changing your behavior patterns by willpower, change your environment first.
Lastly, this is the sentence from the movie.
"We live in a world in which a tree is worth, financially, dead than alive, in a world in which a whale is worth more dead than alive. For so long as our economy works in that way and corporation go unregulated, they' re going to continue to destroy trees, to kill whales, to mine the earth, and to continue to pull oil out of the ground, even though we know it is destroying the planet and we know that its going to leave a worse world for future generations.
This is short-term thinking based on the religion of profit at all costs, as if somehow, magically, each corporation acting in its selfish interest is going to produce the best result. This has been affecting the environment for a long time.
What's frightening, and what hopefully is the last straw that will make us wake up as a civilization to how flawed this theory has been in the first place is to see that now we're the tree, we're the whale.
Our intention can be mined. We are more profitable to a corporation if we're spending time staring at a screen, staring at an ad, than if we are spending that time living our life in a rich way. And so, we're seeing the results of that. We're seeing corporations using powerful artificial intelligence to outsmart us and figure out how to pull our attention toward the things they want us to look at, rather than the things that are most consistent with our goals and our values and our lives.”
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