People Are Sharing the "Things That We Pretend We Need to Be Addicted to" and I Need to Go Home and Rethink My Life

This week u/Morticiar posed the question on Reddit:

"What is an addiction society pretends is a necessity?"

Annnnnd it's probably time that we, as a society, have a bit of a think about the things that we take for granted that are actually just major addictions of ours.

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