Oh definitely. Have you read In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. I’m halfway thru it now and it’s been incredibly eye-opening.
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Sl00k@programming.dev 5 days agoI was just reading an article about how candy companies are trying to make GLP-1 (Ozempic) resistant candy that is effectively hyper-addicting and restarts the cycle of addiction.
Incredible how bad capitalism is for society and it’s affect on food processes in order to drive needless profits.
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 5 days ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I will now; thankfully friend Anna has it in her archive.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Ah, Coffiest is finally here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
“In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on the market. Some of the products contain addictive substances designed to make consumers dependent on them. However, the most basic elements of life are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel.” This in 1952. Mad Men indeed.
I’m just sitting here laughing by myself in my miserable densified cardboard shack I live in.
A quote from the book:
“each sample of Coffiest contains three milligrams of a simple alkaloid. Nothing harmful. But definitely habit-forming. After ten weeks the customer is hooked for life. It would cost him at least five thousand dollars for a cure, so it’s simpler for him to go right on drinking Coffiest - three cups with every meal and a pot beside the bed at night, just as it says on the jar.”
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession.
Didn’t see generative AI slop coming I guess. Money in advertising has been shrinking, at least for small and medium firms.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Ah, finally a reason to upgrade from Windows 7: to make sure the slop really gets into every nanosecond of human existence.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
finally, candy companies fighting drug companies
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Holy shit, what? You got an article on that?
CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
That should be illegal, wtf. Actually evil shit. No wonder people love Superhero movies when real life is filled with supervillains with no end in sight.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world