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ebertucc | 5 years ago

People are not simple cost-benefit calculators, and even if they were, it's easy to screw up that calculation when 1) companies spend billions of advertising dollars each year to shift the perceived benefit (+ network effects reaped from years prior), and 2) you don't have experience with potentially addictive substances. Once you're hooked, it's no longer a fair fight, particularly if you have a susceptible personality.

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matz1|5 years ago

>People are not simple cost-benefit calculators, and even if they were, it's easy to screw up that calculation

Yes of course there could be other entity that try to shift my perceived but its still on me to take that into account.

>Once you're hooked, it's no longer a fair fight

Life is never fair. if I have a susceptible personality, that mean I just have to fight it harder than other people.