I shouldn’t complain so much about the harm and uselessness of smartphones. In the meta sense, they are to my advantage.

They make people both more anxious and stupider, more prone to be less attentive in public, less able to exercise self-control, and also less able to use a real working tool — a full computer.

So, in other words, it makes the smartphone-addicted far less competitive in the job market and their disadvantages accrue to me as advantages as I am not and never will be wedded to my smartphone, nor beset by FOMO or anxiety from its various beeps, exhortations and cries for attention.

I don’t even know where my phone is right now, and that is not uncommon. If I didn’t need it for work, I’d throw it away.