139: We Couldn't Build it Worse if we Tried

Email us at [email protected] If we wanted to design a culture from the ground up to maximize both the potential and severity of addiction, we would build it exactly like the United States today. Once upon a time, humans received contentment and fulfilment from their work, and they often went home feeling connected to their communities and identified with the service or goods they offered for sale. But for the last hundred years we've steadily changed that. Today, 1 in 8 of us ...