Addictions are profitable – for health care providers, governments, treasuries, judiciaries, businesses, industries, social platforms, and academia.
Every product or service bought from the above is possibly sourced to and for addiction. Or you are the product, when you see free youtube videos.
Youtube and insta profit from your doomscrolling and decisions to push things into the future. And get richer from companies who aim to receive purchases from you.
The food industry makes you ignore original food and family recipes. Major cities have so many eateries, food is everywhere you turn but its unhealthier than organic garbage. Price definitely makes you choose but there’s only so much fresh produce the farming industry can grow, while you cannot maintain a kitchen garden to eat free.
Businesses tempt you to buy flashy, posh (there’s a hierarchy) tools and devices (Toyota vs Lexus, iphone vs fold) to show off. But things get old. So you need new ornaments for your personality. EMIs gets you the goods prematurely but repayments last longer than the goods.
And you need to experience all this with a brain aid. Pain killers, prescribed by doctors who were advised by balance sheets, continues tearing countries apart. Anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, all of these replaced genuine human connections and religions other than Islam.
Alcohol is serious revenue for the government. In Bharat’s Tamil Nadu (TN), alcohol contributes almost 25 percent of TN’s tax revenue.
Academia are in cohoots with the aforementioned addiction providers. The shortened lifespan of modern goods and services is promoted to profit the green industries’ mining of lithium, cadmium and other filthy chemicals and a “lower lifetime carbon footprint.” The rejection of science, dishonesty on politics and policy, and misinformation on the environment makes for profitable partnerships.
There’s something about the addiction to money and how it partly perpetuates all other addictions. But that’s for a later comment.
And finally, the judiciaries of the world let these happen. And the governments play to the tune of donors and enablers. There simply is no sufficient incentive to curb these addictions.
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