Alvin E. Roth
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That's so strange.
Yeah, exactly.
Part of it's societal.
What we just have decided is in vogue and not.
I mean, smoking's coming back.
A lot of younger people are smoking again.
And vaping, too.
But even cigarettes.
It's weird.
I don't know what.
I mean, I think maybe because people stopped talking about how bad it was for you that people are kind of back on it, which is not good.
Oh, wow.
Oh, that's really funny.
We had to try it.
Jonathan Haidt would say, and does, I think, that the reason alcohol is down, and also probably why the reason marijuana is up, marijuana, you can do that in isolation.
People smoke at their house by themselves.
They do gummies.
Alcohol is a social drug.
Well, for alcoholics, but I mean generally.
Alcohol is a social drug, and as younger people are being more isolated on their phones, social media, they're staying in.