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		pixl97 on Aug 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Social media decline: Users are shifting to messag... Is this not the nature of all social problems? If you have X problem, that is your problem. If Y% of population has X problem, as X grows large enough, eventually everybody is affected by the side effects of said problem.

MichaelZuo on Aug 31, 2023 [–]

Yes but roughly half the population will always be below average in terms of laziness, assuming it's normally distributed. So saying that is just a tautology.

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