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Every generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Jpopy@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Mert@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Microplastics and PFAS

No, seriously, these two will kill Earth, and us

[–] czer0_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Social Media

[–] sma3in@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

vapes

[–] Cheers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Marketing. We put a person on the moon because we were scared of the space race, and then we spent the next 50 years figuring out how to make rich people richer by manipulating human behavior and gamifying everything so you buy into the buy more stuff you don't need and click more stuff you don't care about. We've gotten so good at it, we only need a 10 second short to advertise stuff to you.

This affects everything we do down to its core and will likely be the cause of astronomical ADHD rates in the future.