re: #289 thedopefishlives

The problem is that they can compete side-by-side, if you actually take their effects into account.

If someone said “You can either have this lightbulb, and a case of asthma that will make you tired every damn day and have to pay for an inhaler, or you can have this lightbulb, which will cost more but you don’t get the asthma”, which would you choose?

The problem is hammering home those costs, and tying them to the products. Our economy separates them, so that the costs are borne by all of us instead of by the company profiting from the product. It’s nuts.