Originally posted by Katrina
Juul is depressing to me because we had made a lot of progress as a society on getting people off of nicotine and now it’s a trendy thing to use this super nicotine-filled product. The best I can hope for is that, since trends are so short-lived nowadays, this one will die off like the rest (I’ve already seen a bunch of the vape shops that sprung up in my city close down) but most trends aren’t literally addictive so this one could realistically outlive the rest of them. Juul’s business model is also kind of an unwelcome success; we’ve had this whole venture capital structure set up with a self-proclaimed focus on things that will "change the world" and had some good results (like Patreon), some big controversial things (I don’t personally like Uber, Lyft or AirBnB but at least they have a compelling case that their services could have improved something), but I think Juul’s use of basically the same funding model to fund e-cigarettes whose main distinguishing feature is that they are more addictive than other e-cigarettes indicates that there is nothing about the structure of venture capital that encourages good behavior. Juul supposedly got funding from a different set of backers than the usual Silicon Valley startups, which is actually more worrying because it suggests the failure mode will change from "Ashton Kutcher lost a bunch of money on Uber for Laundry" to "Marlboro put billions of dollars into this company and now thousands of teens have a nicotine addiction".
Staff’s doing good keep it up
Edit: also Falaflame, your layout doesn’t set the text color, so in site themes that have a light background and dark text you can’t read your posts without selecting them. You should add color: #ffffff; in there somewhere
Juul is depressing to me because we had made a lot of progress as a society on getting people off of nicotine and now it’s a trendy thing to use this super nicotine-filled product. The best I can hope for is that, since trends are so short-lived nowadays, this one will die off like the rest (I’ve already seen a bunch of the vape shops that sprung up in my city close down) but most trends aren’t literally addictive so this one could realistically outlive the rest of them. Juul’s business model is also kind of an unwelcome success; we’ve had this whole venture capital structure set up with a self-proclaimed focus on things that will "change the world" and had some good results (like Patreon), some big controversial things (I don’t personally like Uber, Lyft or AirBnB but at least they have a compelling case that their services could have improved something), but I think Juul’s use of basically the same funding model to fund e-cigarettes whose main distinguishing feature is that they are more addictive than other e-cigarettes indicates that there is nothing about the structure of venture capital that encourages good behavior. Juul supposedly got funding from a different set of backers than the usual Silicon Valley startups, which is actually more worrying because it suggests the failure mode will change from "Ashton Kutcher lost a bunch of money on Uber for Laundry" to "Marlboro put billions of dollars into this company and now thousands of teens have a nicotine addiction".
Staff’s doing good keep it up
Edit: also Falaflame, your layout doesn’t set the text color, so in site themes that have a light background and dark text you can’t read your posts without selecting them. You should add color: #ffffff; in there somewhere
I agree, though to be honest, while I do indeed rather not have nicotine products exist at all in our society, I'd rather deal with vape than deal with actual smoking all the time.
Also, thank you for pointing out that error. Is the layout okay now?
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