Same vibe as people saying "addicted to sugar" or "sugar hijacks your reward system"

Sugar is the original point of the reward system!

& you can cheat the reward system.

Do hard work (takes time), get dopamine for successful completion.

Find berries, taste sweet (hopefully safe), eat all, get calories. Doordash Krispy Kreme instead = few too many calories.

(I’m no Luddite in the sense popularly thought of them pre-‘22 [1], though we have to watch skill atrophy)

[1] regressionist? Decelerationist, too loaded perhaps. Someone remembers or knows the word…