| ▲ | jart a day ago |
| Yeah it's similar to how Facebook is blamed for social malaise. Or how alcohol was blamed before that. It's always more comfortable for people to blame the thing rather than the person. |
|
| ▲ | InitialLastName a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| More than one thing can be causing problems in a society, and enterprising humans of lesser scruples have a long history of preying on the weaknesses of others for profit. |
| |
| ▲ | jart a day ago | parent [-] | | Enterprising humans have a long history of giving people what they desire, while refraining from judging what's best for them. | | |
| ▲ | ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Ah yeah, fentanyl drug adulterers, what great benefactors of society. Screaming "no one is evil, its just markets!" probably helps people who base their lives on exploiting the weak sleep better at night. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good | | |
| ▲ | jart 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | No one desires adulterated fentanyl. | | |
| ▲ | ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No one has desire for adulteration, but they have a desire for an opiate high, and are willing to accept adulteration as a side effect. You can look to the prohibition period for historical analogies with alcohol, plenty of enterprising humans there. | | | |
| ▲ | harperlee 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Fentanyl adulterators, market creators and resellers certainly do, for higher margin selling and/or increased volume. | |
| ▲ | potato3732842 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The traffickers looking to pack more punch into each shipment that the government fails to intercept do. Basically it's a response to regulatory reality, little different from soy wire insulation in automobiles. I'm sure they'd love to deliver pure opium and wire rodents don't like to eat but that's just not possible while remaining in the black. |
|
| |
| ▲ | collingreen 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is fine statement on its own but a gross reply to the parent. |
|
|
|
| ▲ | PeeMcGee 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I like the facebook comparison, but the difference is you don't have to use facebook to make money and survive. When the thing is a giant noisemaker crapping out trash that screws up everyone else's work (and thus their livelihood), it becomes a lot more than just some nuisance you can brush away. |
| |
|
| ▲ | jplusequalt 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Marketing has a powerful effect. Look at how the decrease in smoking coincided with the decrease in smoking advertisement (and now look at the uptick in vaping due to the marketing as a replacement for smoking). Malaise exists at an individual level, but it doesn't transform into social malaise until someone comes in to exploit those people's addictions for profit. |
|
| ▲ | itishappy 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think humans actually tend to prefer blaming individuals rather than addressing societal harms, but they're not in any way mutually exclusive. |
|
| ▲ | a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| [deleted] |
