Our awesome Patreon donors have spoken! This week, they would like for us to answer this question…
What’s the deal with unions? Because I’ve heard they’re amazing, corrupt, empowering, exploitative, equalizing, and expensive. What’s the truth?
Let me answer this question the way I answer most things: by starting with a tangent on a totally unrelated topic, until it suddenly isn’t! (It’s kinda My Thing.)
It’s toasted
Do you know when cigarette smoking among Americans peaked? It was in 1963.
How about when we first got pretty solid evidence that smoking caused lung cancer? It was thirteen years earlier, in 1950.
Thirteen years is a long dang time! If people knew it was a health risk, why did so many not only continue to smoke, but begin smoking who hadn’t before?
The main culprit is the tobacco industry’s social engineering. Which is to say: their deliberate, coordinated campaign of disinformation.
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