Narrator: they were not.

Definitely not true, though. I don’t have any numbers but I would wager global slavery, as a percentage, has declined since 1876 with some bumps in the trend during WWII, as well as after the USSR and CCP took power respectively, when US privatized prisons, and when North Korea started existing and being awful.

People on their phones are conversing, sometimes indirectly, and that gives them more power than we give them credit for. At least until they devolve into worthless sloppers talking to walls.

Yeah not true at all. If you think you’re worse off for having a cell phone, the problem isn’t the phone.