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Between all the coffee, nicotine, CBD, pain killers, psychiatric meds, hormones, nootropics, and micro dosing who’s even normal anymore?
by an0malous 1y ago
Between all the coffee, nicotine, CBD, pain killers, psychiatric meds, hormones, nootropics, and micro dosing who’s even normal anymore?
- rurban 1y agoDon't forgot sugar, which is stronger than cocaine
- tayo42 1y agoI never sold possessions to buy more sugar...
- t-3 1y ago... because sugar is extremely cheap. Even if it was legal, cocaine would be impossible to get that cheap, unless some DNA editing is done to make yeast shit it out maybe. If sugar cost $100/gram I could see crime happening to be able to taste some candy or non-sour bread.
- lblume 1y agoThe cheapness is due to the prevalence, and the prevalence of sugar caused sweetness receptors to be evolutionarily advantageous. There is no world in which sugar is extremely expensive, markets still function basically in the way they do now and humans experience the sensation of sweetness the way they typically do now. Cocaine and other types of "hard" drugs are qualitatively different in that regard. Your example also doesn't really hold up because people typically don't process cocaine in the way they do with sugar and other carbohydrates. In your hypothetical scenario, we might see people consuming large amounts of pure sugar (or artificial sweeteners), but they wouldn't go to lengths of baking bread using it.
- badpun 1y agoBack when sugar first appeared in Europe, it was only affordable to upper-middle classes and above. And yet, I haven't heard about any addicts robbing people so that they can afford sugar. I don't think it's holding quite the same grasp on people as some narcotics do.
- tayo42 1y agoYou can eat one m&m or cupcake without having a freak out. Not the same for a line of cocaine. Which then leads to licking the bag and rubbing what you can on your gums.
- projectazorian 1y ago> Even if it was legal, cocaine would be impossible to get that cheap, unless some DNA editing is done to make yeast shit it out maybe. Not as cheap as sugar, but probably as cheap as coffee. Coca and coffee grow in the same climates, and in recent years the cartels have bred varieties of coca that grow outside of the traditional climate as well. Imagine what modern agribusiness would be capable of.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoIf heroin was $1/kg I doubt anyone would sell possessions for that, either.
- heavyset_go 1y agoA ton of people died over spices lol
- hshdhdhehd 1y agoLuckily industrialisation and the processed food industry has your back providing cheap abundant simple carbs for your pleasure and (later... discomfort) Sugar? For snobs anyway. Corn starch for the masses.
- CryptoBanker 1y agoCan't forget the amphetamines
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- piperswe 1y agoI think that falls under psychiatric meds
- PeterHolzwarth 1y agoMost of what you mention isn't actually normal for most people. But it is possible to tailor your info feed to make it seem like it's normal.
- aqme28 1y ago2/3 of Americans drink coffee. I’ll grant you the rest of the list though.
- squigz 1y agoWe've also been drinking coffee for a long, long time.
- kibwen 1y agoTo be pedantic, we've also been prescribing opioids since Ancient Sumer, 8,000 years ago.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoPlus it isn't true that we've been drinking coffee for a long, long time. Wikipedia: > There is no confirmed evidence, either historical or archaeological, of coffee as a [missing word?] being consumed before the 15th century.
- squigz 1y agoThat's more than 600 years. That counts as a long time in my book.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoIt's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink. (Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.)