2026-06-06 11:30 UTC
@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de I have indeed been taken aback by how addictive these things can be. (Secondhand information BTW; I've never spoken to one, except when businesses refuse to provide customer service any other way.) But I can't believe that addiction as a business model was the plan from day one. That, too, is a desperation move. They originally believed their own propaganda. Probably most of them still do.
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@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de 2026-06-06 12:44
@dedicto@zeroes.ca But I'm not sure if both can't come together. Addicts like to promote their drug. Funding their habit is only one of the motivations. Normalizing their behavior another. And changed brain chemistry. Drugs create their own desire to be advertised.