I think about this a lot too... but more from the angle that if we have all this entertainment that is constantly drip-feeding us dopamine - then surely we'll have entire generations that can't focus on anything for more than a few minutes. How will all the arts/sciences/literally anything that requires huge amounts of focus and dedication ever progress?

I don't know about your work... but at mine management is constantly talking about taking time off and recovering... and in the same breath tells people about all the work that needs to be accomplished by the deadline (and that people might need to work late hours/weekends to get it all done).

I'd have to imagine that the person with the most promising cancer cure would not have a Netflix addiction, surely it'd take years of focus and dedication to get to that point. We've seen it with the pandemic, medical professionals all around the world slogging their guts out to help everyone else.