This was and is already true to a lesser degree with manipulative digital socialization. The less of your agency you surrender to network X, the more your friends who have given their habits to network X will be able to work at higher speed and capacity with each other and won’t bother with you. But X is often controlled by a powerful and misaligned entity.
And of course these two things may have quite a lot of synergy with each other.
This was and is already true to a lesser degree with manipulative digital socialization. The less of your agency you surrender to network X, the more your friends who have given their habits to network X will be able to work at higher speed and capacity with each other and won’t bother with you. But X is often controlled by a powerful and misaligned entity.
And of course these two things may have quite a lot of synergy with each other.