we are looking at it from the lens of a post Purdue media bias include me out of your of your assumptions, please. I knew the Purdue pharma stuff was bad from

we are looking at it from the lens of a post Purdue media bias include me out of your of your assumptions, please. I knew the Purdue pharma stuff was bad from the get-go, and it's not because I'm prudish about drugs or a huge believer in regulating everything to the point of paralysis. It was because the combination of high physical potential for abuse + strong economic incentives to monetize that leads to bad results. Wars have literally been fought over this in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars You might be familiar with Adam Smith's famous economic example of the pin factory. Here's Rudyard Kipling's description of an opium factory operated by the British colonial power in 19th century India, an equally brilliant illustration of commercial logic but applied in service of perverse incentives. https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12024/3289 https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500...