GertrudGoethe@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoAmerica Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugmanpaulkrugman.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1227arrow-down120cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1207arrow-down1external-linkAmerica Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugmanpaulkrugman.substack.comGertrudGoethe@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square18linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareDeviallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·11 hours agoHas this dude never heard of the tobacco, alcohol or gun Industry ? He’s talking about commercial heroin like it’s some outlandish and unthinkable idea that a harmful thing would become a billion dollar industry
minus-squarepdxfed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 hours agoHe’s deliberately making the point accessible because he’s writing for all levels of readers, including Americans. He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.
Has this dude never heard of the tobacco, alcohol or gun Industry ?
He’s talking about commercial heroin like it’s some outlandish and unthinkable idea that a harmful thing would become a billion dollar industry
He’s deliberately making the point accessible because he’s writing for all levels of readers, including Americans.
He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.