“At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasmania.” UsaDrugsOpioidsHipocrisy Book:Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Source: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
“As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any.” PoorRichIdle Rich Book:Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Source: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
“As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists have been rather more successful than the economists. For their part, economists have proposed a “rational” theory of suicide that posits that people kill themselves in order to “maximize utility.” EconomicsSuicideSociologyUtilityNeoclassical EconomicsDismal Science Book:Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Source: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism