a lot of people have heard about
dopamine
as the pleasure molecule and that's one
thing it does
dopamine was originally made to make us
desire
things that will benefit us
evolutionarily and reward us when we do
it so
eat when you're hungry drink when you're
thirsty
reproduction winning competitions these
are natural things
your brain develops priorities
in large part based on how much dopamine
it's gonna get
what do you want a hundred dollars or
what's behind door number two
there's a good chance what behind door
number two is like a car or something
right so they always pick door number
two that's gonna give you
more dopamine dopamine doesn't give us
pleasure for things we
have it can only make us want more
once you get it dopamine shuts off
social media gets you addicted by always
promising you
more there's always this sense if i'm
not on social media
i'm going to miss out on something i
need to get more clicks i need to get
more likes i need to get more friends
have you ever been kind of scrolling
through your social media
looking at these different stories
looking at these different posts
and you realize i'm miserable i should
be doing something else this is boring
this is making me sad but you can't stop
because what you're afraid
of is that there's something down there
that might be important
there's something down there that might
give you more might make your life
better
and so you just can't stop and that's
dopamine
what's the worst thing that could happen
with this the danger is that it's no
longer a tool
to make your life better it becomes a
sink
where it absorbs all of your time all of
your focus
all of your energy and everything else
around it shrivels
so you stop paying attention to the
people in your life because all you're
worried about is getting more dopamine
off of social media
that's right what are the consequences
of us
being addicted to social media instagram
twitter texting snap what is the worst
long-term consequences we could face
with this well
how about the end of the human race you
think so yes
tell me why we've got so much amazing
cool stuff we've got all kinds of things
we can buy
we've got all kinds of things we can
experience
something's got to give what is it that
we're giving up for all of these things
the answer is children once an economy
reaches a certain point of prosperity
the members of that economy lose
interest in reproducing
all of the developed nations have a
negative population growth rate
in order to keep the human race going
each woman needs to have
2.1 children two children to
replace her and the father and one to
replace
people who die before they have a chance
to reproduce
in all developed countries the birth
rate is less than 2.1 percent
even in developing nations uh we're
seeing this happen
uh it's falling and falling and falling
we don't have a solution there are some
countries where they're not paying
people
to have children and even that's not
working as we get
more and more gadgets that attract our
attention
they become substitutes for family
and ultimately the human race is simply
going to collapse unless something
changes