This is what we call long-term investment a taxman wins once you have kids

Perhaps, but we would need to put the idea in practice to determine what's the cause/effect relationship here.

Are people more addicted to their screens because the real world became hostile, or is the real world becoming hostile because people are glued to their screens?

I'd bet on the first option, but I could be wrong.

I love my screen time but if there was free ping pong somewhere outside or something I'd go there a lot. Same for rock climbing, board game spaces... I'd get out for a lot. Screen time is a cheap substitute for this real stuff.

The app doesn't need to be free, and the revenue stream won't dry up if it actually works because people break up, and there are so many fucking people that even in a zero sum scenario it would take forever to reach saturation.

meh, I dont think thats accurate. I would say "opportunist" is a better fit. Anticapitalists understand how profit extractions works and have a very different view on society. Mostly one that does not work on .world because of the capitalist propaganda machine running in the west.

That's how it'll end up though.

Although with all the Nazism going on in Silicon Valley, there's a good chance that's what they've been attempting all along.