Has it ever occurred to you that you have a ton of control over your general health and can protect yourself from physical injury extremely well?

Has it ever occurred to you that many people in the United State don't have legs?

I am in my early twenties. I exercise regularly, I don't drink to excess, I don't smoke, I eat well, and I don't do any dangerous activities. That means I probably won't break my leg or die of obesity-related conditions.

However, it damn well could be that I could get a disease or condition that no one can prevent. No one has any business pretending otherwise.

Sounds like buyers remorse, not that you were swindled.

You wanted "access to a wider range of consumer goods and services" you got that access. Now that you want to save money instead means that you just changed your mind... again.

in 2012 we had this in Afghanistan on almost every single container/pallet/load.

Yeah thats what we originally built at Savi... but there was no security, wifi or any other security in those original tags.

This was the impetus behind us trying to make the modular version.

I chatted with an engineer from Oracle a couple years ago who talked about those existing in Afghanistan, he was involved in that project somehow.

Do you know what they were called/who made them? I had no idea they were actually in production.

I hope you apply the same logic to the homeless that move into your local parks and community areas. They are just trying to seek economic advantage, wealthy people have more money to give. It normal to strive for maximum return on minimal output.

It just makes him human.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic but yes you could apply the same logic to homeless people. But minimal output? You can't prove that.

>Upper class white people

Your racism is showing.

Upper class people like Cocaine too, care to inject a racial undertone as to why that is illegal?

That's why the penalties for cocaine are historical less than for crack despite them being the same drug.

It's not racial per se -- in the original message I think "dominant mainstream culture" would be better than "white" -- though in the 50s and 60s those were almost the same thing. Back then the dominant culture implied white, English-speaking, and protestant Christian, and other cultures and ethnic groups were second class. That's much less true today but not totally.

I'm speaking to the historical reasons for the war on drugs, which are mostly related to racism as well as a desire to suppress subcultures like the 'hippie' movement. The original propaganda used to make marijuana illegal was all about black men seducing white women. Google it.

If the war on drugs were about health and based on rational health evidence, marijuana would be legal and alcohol would be schedule I.

People with money like cocaine. There is a correlation between class and money, but they are not the same thing.

The article provides historical context and a framework to think about the question. I think it does a better job answering the question than your last 2 paragraphs.

After finishing it, I'm almost certain the author just produced a shorter more accessible version of the argument from "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey. It's basically a Marxian interpretation of the issue.

Yeah, nothing is persuasive. Everything simply confirms or disconfirms what you already know. There is no learning. I will die knowing what I knew yesterday.

Life is shit, eat Arby's. Am I following along?

Nowhere did I say it was a task put against you or that something is owed to parents. This is a perk being offered by the company, just like free lunches or monthly team outings.

It's a very attractive perk for couples looking to have a family and will like engender loyalty within that cohort.

Another important factor to consider;

I am small troll A suing company B. I lose, judge orders that troll A pay all the legal fees. I don't have the money, I file bankruptcy, I flee the country.

Lawyers still want to get paid. I doubt any legal team will just chase some random around into collections because "loser pays"

I agree with him.