First what is Surveillance Capitalism- the idea that companies gather data on you and distribute it to advertisers for monetary gain. If you want more information, I recommend reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari.
A major contributor to the modern mental health epidemic is the ability of big tech to market you to advertisers. Sure, you might need that item, but the excessive marketing of corporations is causing a massive attention crisis in our modern world.
If we ban this, we get to go back to the 60’70s where marketing was done more on a local level by smaller businesses and allows the average American citizen a better shot at
better mental health
business ownership and success