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Addiction, mental illness, a defacto requirement to drive to get around low-density towns where walking is often extremely dangerous due to lack of sidewalks an
by MSFT_Edging 7mo ago
Addiction, mental illness, a defacto requirement to drive to get around low-density towns where walking is often extremely dangerous due to lack of sidewalks and fast roads.
Alcohol abuse has been around about as long as we've been human. We've just constructed a society where Alcohol abuse is far more likely to pick up collateral damage.
- vkou 7mo agoWe've also become a lot better at distilling high-proof alcohol, and at making it cheap enough that most people have the budget to get absolutely wasted on the regular. Most people don't do that, but the option is there for anyone looking to make their life and the lives of people around them significantly worse.
- AngryData 7mo agoAlcohol has never been expensive enough or hard enough to produce to prevent alcoholism. 3000 years ago average people were drinking alcohol daily.
- MSFT_Edging 7mo agoAlcohol used to be the thing you made from taking old fruit, putting them in water, and walking away.