I'm sympathetic to your point, but at some point other people ruining themselves degrades your experience as well.
I don't gamble and in theory don't care if others do. But prediction markets are affecting sports and possibly governance as well in obviously negative ways.
For this specific issue - the more functionally illiterate, zero-attention-span humans we create, the worse all of our lives will become.
there have always been losers, junkies and assholes. i'd rather have some of them but an entire society of adults brainwashed into wearing mental diapers.
are you a native speaker? i'd have made a bet that but works here just as well as than.
anyway ... social media doesn't _make_ anybody wear mental diapers. maybe offers or sells but only government can make you wear them.
As you have it there, "but" would mean the latter is an unfortunate consequence or side-effect of the former, and you're getting both. Whereas "than" would mean you're getting the former and not the latter.
I don't gamble and in theory don't care if others do. But prediction markets are affecting sports and possibly governance as well in obviously negative ways.
For this specific issue - the more functionally illiterate, zero-attention-span humans we create, the worse all of our lives will become.