You've replaced one drug with another. Freud would be proud.
> If you told someone in 1850 that air conditioning would reshape the global economy, they'd think you were crazy.
This is incredibly misinformed. You've lived /with/ refrigeration and /without/ malaria for so long you have no Earthly idea how people in the opposite state lived their lives or saw the world around them.
> We're discussing the first medication that effectively regulates human impulse control. Think about that.
It has side effects. Think about that.
> The significant economic impact occurs in the second and third-order effects.
Yes and many of them will be negative. This is hyper futurism with zero grounding in the past. This is extremely lazy writing.
"you replaced this drug with hundreds of known downsides with one that has none"
Nice nonargument for the rest of your post. It's somehow misinformed to state the fact that the southern manufacturing industry simply cannot exist before air conditioning
Frankly your attitude is evil and you are a proponent of evil.
I can't understand this type of thinking. Of course it has downsides. You are being extremely disingenuous to say this. Let alone not acknowledging that different people experience different side effects. Plus you're completely ignoring the /reasons/ why people drink in the first place and abandoning any effort to impact those. Do you work for the company producing this drug or are you genuinely this gullible?
> your attitude is evil and you are a proponent of evil.
So you label things you don't understand as evil? What is this meant to accomplish?
If you really believe what you say then why aren't you pressing for the drug to be free? For free consultations to be given out? If it's truly this magical then it's very irresponsible to let a for profit company own it, sell it, and market it. Isn't it? Wouldn't that actually be evil? To champion this cause merely to make money for a patent holder?
You diminish these terms in your careless use of them.
First, those in power rebased the diet of the masses to carbs. Consequence: an eternal epidemic of obesity, with the many known complications and illnesses as a result.
Then, they now try to remedy the problem by fucking with the human body's mechanisms. 100% guaranteed to cause terrible side effects, in the long term. It's always more complex than you think. The more coveted a "medication" for a societal problem is -- with the problem being the pigswill that is fed to the masses, and our absolutely terrible sedentary, movement-less lifestyle --, the more quickly it will be greenlit, and the greater damage it will do over time (those pesky "unknown unknowns"). The hubris of human industry is unlimited; here's one example:
> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.
The obvious solution to the obesity epidemic is to dismantle the food industry and the 8 hours workday. Our eating and movement/exercise habits need to revert to not just pre-industrial, but pre-agricultural standards. Move a lot every week (at least on 4 days per week), welcome hunger back into our lives (hunger allows you to appreciate and enjoy simple food -- intermittent fasting is amazing), and eat food with high volume, but low calorie content, and/or with low glycemic index. Our stomach volume and our blood sugar control had evolved for those types of foodstuffs, yet due to said rebasing of the diet of the masses to carbs, we've been filling our bellies with artificial food that's hyper-charged on calories and that get absorbed immediately. That's the recipe for growing fat tissue.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
And a final comment:
> Analysts predict that by 2030, 30% of American adults will be on these medications
Why doesn't that prediction make everyone shit their pants, from fear? Do you really want to make all those people dependent on Big Pharma just so they can eat healthily? How more basic do our bodily needs get than that?
This meds are pure evil, they're a non-answer, they're a cop-out, they only transfer power from Big Food to Big Pharma.
This is the same shit as trying to "cure" society-wide depression and anxiety with drugs. It only suppresses (or replaces) the symptoms, without fixing the root cause. We're depressed because our engineered societies make our lives meaningless. The struggle for survival is real, and the universe is unfair and indifferent, so we certainly need society, to cope with that. Just not this way.
The Wikipedia article you linked states that Midgley actually knew the dangers:
> tetraethyl lead was known to be acutely toxic by those involved in the development of leaded gasoline. This included Midgley, who publicly insisted that there was nonetheless no health hazard posed
W.r.t. making people dependent on big pharma:
I have multiple allergies and although the drugs I take have side effects, I would not function without them ~8-10 months of the year (where I live, the pollen season is expanding with global warming).
I am somewhat dependent on big pharma for quality of life, but the alternative is strictly much worse for me.
I know it is a more mature type of drug, but the automatic kneejerk reactions against “Big Pharma” is unwarranted IMO.
You've replaced one drug with another. Freud would be proud.
> If you told someone in 1850 that air conditioning would reshape the global economy, they'd think you were crazy.
This is incredibly misinformed. You've lived /with/ refrigeration and /without/ malaria for so long you have no Earthly idea how people in the opposite state lived their lives or saw the world around them.
> We're discussing the first medication that effectively regulates human impulse control. Think about that.
It has side effects. Think about that.
> The significant economic impact occurs in the second and third-order effects.
Yes and many of them will be negative. This is hyper futurism with zero grounding in the past. This is extremely lazy writing.