I am thinking of a chain of causality like:
People do not plan things, or they flake on events because they're tired. Theyre tired because theyre working too many hours and are obese. They work/obese because because they consume too much. They consume too much because we're a spiritually empty society. (Just to put up an initial draft hypothesis).
I'm thinking if we can solve some of the nodes closer to the root we can have a higher impact than just burning ourselves out trying to deal with the leaf nodes.
For me, the chain of events was like this.
I had disposable income > i had no social network or things to do > so i went out and joined a running group and made friends like that.
Others probably choose gaming or something else they can do alone in the third stage.
I doubt there are many people who spent on gaming without first going through the “I don’t have things to do” stage.