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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman (paulkrugman.substack.com)
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[–] ijon_the_human@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Who is this author and why is he so ignorant of the past few decades of opiate problems in the US?

The author is Paul Krugman, a little known economist, writes for the papers I think.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Sorry if I'm getting whooshed, but Krugman is an infamous economist. He takes really big swings and is sometimes incredibly wrong.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Another shill for the NYTimes... Check their op/ed pages. Full of worthless libs saying dumb shit.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

I’ve heard the name before but I’m not super tuned into this area. The analogy just really struck out for me in the first two paragraphs, monumentally so. If he writes with this amount of conviction about something he clearly has no idea about, I’m not likely to trust anything else that he writes in the same article. It’s important to know your limitations.