Paula Pant@AffordAnything
The WSJ just ran the most depressing headline in human history.
The piece is a first-person column from two retirees.
They say that without bosses, deadlines, or meetings, there's nothing to interrupt zombie doomscrolling.
"We retirees have a particular vulnerability," writes one of the co-authors, Stephen Kreider Yoder, a retired WSJ editor.
"We have time on our hands and no external authority telling us to snap out of it."
"Let's have a show of hands:
"How many retirees have ended a day looking up from the phone, wondering where the time went and feeling the mental equivalent of having finished off a family-size bag of potato chips?"
"Yeah," he writes. "That's what I thought."
We spend decades trying to buy back our time ... and then spend it staring at our screens.