Parr: Freedom from screens will become an upper-class luxury like health food
Sam Parr · Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction · Feb 18, 2026 · at 52:47
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss the modern attention crisis and how high-net-worth individuals increasingly disconnect from consumer screens and tech interfaces.
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“I think that what we're going to see is that there's going to be like these classes where like the upper class, the rich people who don't have to be on their phone or computer all the time, they're going to know that this is an issue. Sort of like, it's a little bit different now, but sort of like in the nineties and early 2000 whole foods was a luxury. So health food was a luxury. And so I think that's, what's going to happen here, which is sad, but I think that's just probably naturally how things are kind of tend to Play out almost all the time.”
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