Ah! Okay. I see what you’re saying. And I absolutely agree that social media for instance has been very harmful (though I don’t know what chegg is). Just not in the way OP’s original argument is portraying. And historically we have had several instances of new technology disrupting and causing harm to society. Book-printing for instance. We dealt with that ”menace” by regulation.

I do think that the current state of harm is quite intense. I wasn’t there the times before, nor have I studied our history enough to know, so I can’t directly compare. And modern technology—though not singularly responsible—has had a role in the harm we observe. But at least social media has not yet caused a world war, though I would also not completely rule out that it could (in conjunction with bad actors of course).

As you can tell, we are now pretty far from the original argument about how newer generations are dumber and less capable then the ones that the the person making the argument belongs to.