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> If you are using a service weekly for a long period, you find it useful. Do alcoholics find their daily usage of alcohol really useful? You can of course mak
by deaux 1y ago
> If you are using a service weekly for a long period, you find it useful.
Do alcoholics find their daily usage of alcohol really useful? You can of course make a case for this, but it's quite a stretch. I think people use stuff weekly for all sorts of reasons besides usefulness for the most common interpretation of the word.
- pessimizer 1y ago> Do alcoholics find their daily usage of alcohol really useful? Of course they do. They use it to get drunk and to avoid withdrawals. You're trying to confuse useful with productive. Being productive does make a difference, though, because if something isn't productive it doesn't generate enough cash to buy more of it - you have to pull the cash from somewhere else. So I think your feeling is correct, although your argument is wrong. Buying gas for your car is productive, because it gets you to work which gets you money to pay for more gas and other things (like alcohol.) Buying alcohol is not productive, and that means that people can't pay too much for it.
- famouswaffles 1y agoProductivity isn't the barrier of whether people can 'pay too much' for something or not. Gaming is one of the biggest industries around. The difference is that besides being useful, alcohol is actively harmful.