[chroem]

>As production techniques for hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines improve, cost of access has dropped significantly, leading to increased use of these substances in children. Technological progress is inevitable, so we might as well embrace it and accept the fact that children will be using hard drugs from now on.

Of course, that's an extreme example of the argument that has been used on HN a lot lately in favor of data collection, but it still gets the point across. Just because there's an industry push towards something doesn't mean that it's right.

[philtar]

Yeah except one is supposed to make your life better and the other destroys your life.

This is not an extreme example. This is (I hope, for your sake) a joke.

[Houshalter]

What I said was that it's a useful application of technology. People will probably like it and it will gradually become a normal part of our society. That's the opposite of your example.

[antihero]

Drugs are still pretty expensive though :(