Dopamine can be depleted through activities like scrolling, leading to a dopamine deficit without significant reward.

“Um and it seems like all day long we we can potentially spend our dopamine, right? Or we can invest our dopamine on this is purely on the basis of your work. Awesome. Um and it seems like all day long we we can potentially spend dopamine. Scrolling is spending and and it's the kind of spending we don't even notice that we're doing. We're sort of leaking. It's almost like leaking dopamine.”