> ...the economy that produced Juicero is the same one that’s creating opioid addicts in Ohio... These phenomena might seem worlds apart, but they’re intimately connected.
I don't think so.
I'm from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a place that has had such a sudden and dramatic onset of opioid use it was the subject of an HBO documentary[0]. I know many people who have been affected by it.
Cape Cod was never going to get tech jobs. It's a beach town fueled by tourism. Sure, we got a few hundred Uber driving jobs from the tech boom over the last decade, but not much else.
While the author makes some good points about funding scientific research, tax cuts, and so on, I think there are many other important factors that outweigh the performance of the tech industry or "innovation".
I thought the same thing about that quote. What's fueling the opioid epidemic is a combination of cheap, easy-to-prescribe drugs, doctors who are unwilling to treat chronic pain cases with more diverse methods, and depression. Of course, there's the precipitating factors too: auto-accidents, sedentary lifestyles which make the body more vulnerable to chronic pain, and economic stagnation.
I don't think so.
I'm from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a place that has had such a sudden and dramatic onset of opioid use it was the subject of an HBO documentary[0]. I know many people who have been affected by it.
Cape Cod was never going to get tech jobs. It's a beach town fueled by tourism. Sure, we got a few hundred Uber driving jobs from the tech boom over the last decade, but not much else.
While the author makes some good points about funding scientific research, tax cuts, and so on, I think there are many other important factors that outweigh the performance of the tech industry or "innovation".
[0] http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/heroin-cape-cod-usa