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Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.
Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.
Violence is the most direct and effective method of control, of obtaining and maintaining power.
And that is why nation states have a monopoly on it
I suppose doing that could be an important part in a collapse of the capitalist system. If a community decided to stop farmers from selling massive harvests of one crop to corporations and supermarkets, often in other countries, and instead went back to eating locally grown seasonal food.
I mean, hemp grows pretty much anywhere
How else would hemp be grown at an industrial scale, though?
They are either domestic bootlegs or imports. If cigarettes were actually fully banned, organized crime groups would begin mass cigarette smuggling and manufacturing operations. Sounds ridiculous, but it’s true
Not necessarily. People could actually start smoking more because tax free cigarettes are astronomically cheaper
Moving the goalposts or something like that?
Humans have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years. Banning it will only allow the black market to swell to an unimaginable size
First and foremost, people have the right to slowly kill themselves with cigarettes as long as it isn’t harming innocent bystanders.
Arguably more importantly, the proposed ban is worryingly dystopian.
Finally, agreeing with anything Sunak does is unforgivable. And in this case would reflect neo-liberal sympathies.
The UK is the tax haven my guy