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Comment by jollyllama | Hacker News Reader

Hasn't it been that way for at least a few hundred years? I'm surprised the article didn't mention the OG stimulant, tobacco.

coffee houses (previously a threat to the monarchy) would buckle at their knees in front of the dose in caffiene pills or energy drinks

even tobacco has turned to vaping to deliver more nicotine quicker

Sometimes I wonder if coffee is responsible for modernity.

It literally is. Technologists are all the degenerate intellectual children of Voltaire - who famously drank 40-50 cups of coffee per day.

Probably, by replacing alcohol in places where people gathered during daytime.

Perhaps since the beginning of what we came to call society.

The romans had society. No tobacco or coffee

They were alcoholics, opioid and weed smokers

Also there’s absolutely no aspect of Rome that I would want to repeat

it was a bunch of pederasty, slavery and overall horrific conditions for almost everybody

Heroin? That was not discovered till acetylation was invented in the 19th century.

no, opium.

They edited the original comment, first they wrote heroin to which I responded.

President ran a child rape cult

First world office workers codependent on sweatshop slavery

...but conditions improved for majority

1 of 3 we did better than the Romans

Even animals will do things like get drunk on fermented fruit. Humans just figured out how to get a regular supply.