US mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people

American mobile-phone subscriptions per 100 people climbing past saturation as American sugar consumption per person falls. The phone in the hand and the candy bar in the cabinet, on opposite sides of the regression line. The decade chose differently.

US mobile subscriptions per hundred people went from about 70 in 2005 to over 100 today as smartphones became ubiquitous. Per-capita sugar consumption has trended down across the same window as the no-added-sugar movement, sugar-tax discussions, and substitution toward artificial sweeteners reduced average intake. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same eighteen years saw both a smartphone-era ubiquity and a slow dietary shift.

Two completely unrelated American defaults shifted. The phone arrived; the sugar slipped.