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tshaddox on July 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoki...

> addiction and capitalism are a terrible combination.

Have we ever seen that play out for hard drugs, when capitalism is also allowed to work on treatment and rehab?

coldpie on July 8, 2015 | [–]

Alcohol would be the obvious example of a relatively unregulated, addictive hard drug with treatment centers.

wpietri on July 9, 2015 | [–]

Might as well form a company that does both. Then you can make money from causing the problem and from solving it. It'd be the broken window fallacy on an industrial scale.

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