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Originally Posted by peter12
Actually some pretty influential economists (Tyler Cowen, Bryan Caplan etc...) have noted the benefits of a lower-class hooked on pot becoming increasingly accepting of growing income inequality.
So it's not all parody.
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The brother of a buddy of mine, who was studying to be a cop in the UK, remarked on a visit how clean the parks were in Calgary, and how refreshing it was to see children playing in them. In cities in the UK, most public places like that are overrun with drunk teens and young adults. I commented that the Canadian counterparts to those punks were at home smoking dope and playing videogames. We agreed that was an improvement for society.
But yeah, if your poor and jobless are pacified with weed and PS4/Netflix/porn, they're not rampaging through the streets burning cars and mugging upstanding taxpayers.