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Juul and Its House of Smoke and Horrors
- draw_down 8y agoFlat out, it's just extremely disingenuous to conflate the dangers of tobacco and e-cigs. Malik should be ashamed to perpetuate this, but it's so common that it's not surprising. (Plus as he's a former smoker, it has a nice ring of moral high ground to it.) Everyone needs to cut it out with that. It's bullshit, which is not to say that e-cigs are perfectly safe or unworthy of concern. Now, is this company selling people on nicotine addiction? Sure it is. Just as coffee companies sell people on caffeine addiction, just as smartphone companies sell smartphone addiction. No need to be coy about it. But the point is that we should be looking at the dark side of all SV businesses- Facebook (data mining, privacy, tracking), Apple (smartphone addiction), Google (all of the above) to name a few. From this perspective, we can see that VC-backed Silicon Valley companies are not building the brighter future they purport to build. Investing money to make more money is the name of the game, and they have been wildly successful at that, but let us not fool ourselves that it is anything more or better.