Dr. Keith Humphreys

It's like that just doesn't follow.

The fact that you occasionally, you know, take a snort of cocaine or whatever and you're still a state senator, that doesn't prove that that would be safe for everyone.

And, you know, we know people have different levels of risk.

They have different social capital.

They have different incentives in their lives.

And you can't overgeneralize from a sort of...

a lucky life or a costed life, sometimes you can do more of that than you can when there's not many nets sort of between the person and the ground.

They talk about it themselves that way.

If you get together with app developers, they'll say, how do we make this more addictive?

And it is good for business.

There is no customer like an addicted customer.

So of course that's going to be appealing if you're trying to sell something.

Well, alcohol also kills, you know, about 150,000 Americans a year.

So if that's our bar...

We should have hand grenades in the drugstore.

You know, they would kill tens of thousands, but not 150,000.

You know, we should legalize drunk driving because, you know, that only kills 10,000 people.

I mean, that's just a crazy thing to set as the, well, as long as it kills less than 150,000 people a year, it sounds great to me.

No, that doesn't make any sense.

I mean, I am clear, like, economically, I am a capitalist.