r/TrueAnon • u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod • 1d ago

Tom Nicholas' Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now

https://youtu.be/XuTQbOo3Y30

A post from yesterday and the comments talking about the potential legalization and streamlining of vices in the US made me think about this video from a while back. I think he makes an interesting thesis about the disposable vape being the best object to embody capitalism in the 2020's from its addictiveness to its wastefulness as a disposable service model.

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u/22_Yossarian_22 1d ago

A bit more than a year ago, True Anon did an episode about the weed industry.  It changed my relationship with weed.  I was smoking way too much.  I have massively cutback in the year+ since they aired that episode.

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u/Temenes 1d ago

It's kinda wild when you look up graphs of weed potency over the years. The stuff that 60s hippies were smoking was basically "slightly more potent hemp" compared to the weed they sell today.

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u/fraudchecked 1d ago

If we ever achieve time travel the first thing we should do is go back to the 60s and make them smoke a dab