> edit: You could even argue, in a conspiratorial mind, that by getting people addicted to sugar ($0.0002 / mg) in order to then get them addicted to a drug tha

> edit: You could even argue, in a conspiratorial mind, that by getting people addicted to sugar ($0.0002 / mg) in order to then get them addicted to a drug that costs ($10/mg) is peak "Capitalism" Oh you absolutely could argue that. That's pretty much right on the money. It doesn't require conspiratorial up-front planning. Just a tragedy of the commons in an environment of capitalistic incentives without the necessary constraints around it.