Dopamine Tax: How Algorithms Get You to Spend

Описание: Dopamine Tax: How Algorithms Get You to Spend
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In this video, we connect digital dopamine loops to overspending — and show why the fastest “financial move” might be deleting the very apps designed to keep you scrolling.

Dopamine isn’t free. You’re paying a dopamine tax.
The algorithm buys your attention… then it opens your wallet.

🔎 Topics covered:
• The screen-to-spend pipeline: more scrolling → more spending (correlation pattern across studies)
• Why “heavy screen time” is normal (long-tail usage, especially on social apps)
• The 3 triggers that turn scrolling into shopping:

1. Variable rewards (the “hit” keeps you chasing)
2. Personalization (recommendations feel like your taste)
3. Friction removal (one-click, saved cards, instant checkout)
• The real cost: impulse buys don’t just cost money — they cost attention, regret, and follow-up purchases

✅ Try this today:
Delete one shopping app (or log out).
Remove saved payment methods.
Use a 24-hour cart rule.
Less dopamine tax. More savings.

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📊 Data Sources & Research:
📈 Computers in Human Behavior (2022) — smartphone addiction linked with online compulsive buying
📈 Journal of Business Research (2024) — social commerce and impulse buying dynamics
📈 Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (2024) — algorithmic recommendations, trust, and impulse buying
📈 PMC (2025) — U.S. adult app screen-time distribution (long tail; heavy social app users)
📈 Taylor & Francis (2025) — smartphone addiction and mobile impulse buying

📌 Digital minimalism
📌 Dopamine & attention
📌 Impulse buying
📌 Spending habits
📌 Better decisions