[ThrowawayR2]

CDOs, the financial instrument behind the 2008 financial collapse, had a tremendous amount of market value too. A "LOT"(sic) of businesses were built on selling tobacco products, lead based gasoline, and high sugar ultra-processed foods too. Perhaps you should rethink your argument?

Creating economic activity doesn't justify harming people and it has become thunderingly obvious that titillating and outraging viewers constantly to maximize ad impressions is harming the public.

[lazide]

I’m saying it’s easy to say until the consequences arrive. And with something this big, the consequences will be big.

But then I’ve lived through 3-4 major downturns so far - and seen the ‘oh shit’s land.

[ThrowawayR2]

I've lived through 3-4 major downturns too and, yeah, it's hard. Like discontinuing leaded gasoline, we either pay the price now or pay much worse later.

[lazide]

I don’t disagree, I just cringe when I see (presumably young/haven’t been through it before) folks cheer for destruction.

We had alternatives to those things, when we banned them, after all. Or didn’t ban them at all, just taxed them more.

[pixl97]

The best day to stop smoking was yesterday, but stopping today is the second best.

The consequences of addiction are huge, and the longer you stay addicted the worse it gets.