Why not extend this to everyone? When your projected costs to society exceed your projected benefit to society you get ground into food for the rest?
This is such a ridiculous viewpoint on a hacker forum. There are no intrinsic resources - iron ore is just a bunch of rocks, crude oil is a toxic sludge, Uranium is a bunch of radioactive ore.
Economy is not a zero sum game, it's about allocating current resources to expand future ones (AKA growth)
They already implicitly did. Turns out the dysfunctional criminal justice and medical system the praise affect more than just addicts. Who would have thought.