Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

Most 19th century children were too busy doing chores to enable their families to survive in an agrarian economy to lay around getting wasted. More productive purpose for kids and less free time and "self-actualization."

Yep Stephen, that happened, unfortunately, there wasn't narcan at the time

Is a nineteenth-century, hard liquor was the number one mind and body destroying chemical choice not cocaine or heroin. You have the same effect only a came out of a whiskey bottle instead of a hypodermic needle.

Heroin, even until 1913.

addiction is not what is claimed, in the 19th century a certain level of community still existed, and that made drug use uncommon, remove community and drug use shoots up.

Maybe teenagers are stupid and want to do drugs because the SJW media and the new age hippie books make them think drugs are needed to be "Popular" or to escape the illusion of material existence and get magical spirit powers. (that will make them cool and popular)

You can still do that if Steve is at work, also the drug store is called Taco Bell.

never go full libertarian...

I always said that I was born in the wrong era.

Supply is an easier discussion

Love me some coca-cola...

And so the masses of people must continue until EVERY LAST BIT OF SPACE has a human being standing on it? There can be NO DIEING whatsoever? People must MASS PRODUCE, on, and on, and on, until there are billions, and billions, and billions of PEOPLE? To what aim?

I miss original coke cola.

Exactly!

Truth

Fun fact: addiction rates for all drugs has hovered around 1% of users for as long as such things have been tracked. Has never been over 2%. Supply/demand are the cornerstones of capitalism. Thank the gods for capitalism.

Those were the days. It is indeed demand, a symptom of sick despairing societies.

Demand brought on by child abuse

Yes, but intelligence agencies can pump up demand through propaganda. They obtain black budget profits. Look at Qing dynasty in the Opium Wars. When the "public idols" are addicts then the people soon imitate.

This is a great point.