hypothesis:
what if all of the time spent on the enabling and participating of screen-watching (TVshows, vidGames, NETbrowsing, etc.) was spent on actively positive pursuits: growing food, cleaning the neighborhood, friendly relationships, exercise, peace, learning, teaching, building, etc.
The average person watches 4.5 hours of television per day. That is about 70 days out of 365 spent watching television.
70 Days is enough time to
- Earn $5600 at $10/hour
- Train for a Marathon
- Gain elementary knowledge of a foreign language
- Fall in Love
- Build a house
multiply that, of course, over a life time:
70 days x 84 years = 5,880 days
That is nearly 6000 days. This does not include other screen time, like this here computer, or video games (portable and stationary)
16 years is spent, on average, in our lives watching television when many people in the world do not even live that long because they lack food.
maybe we just don’t have anything better to do.
these are the sorts of things i think about in the shower.
and this is only measuring the economic opportunity cost of excess screenage
