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dopamine was originally made to make us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