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I think lack of stimulus at work is why addiction is (mostly) a poverty problem. I have even worked at factories where people got high to get through an inhumanely boring day.

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Do we have data to suggest the poor have more problems with addiction?

Flourishing requires more than wealth. Think of all the celebrities who have struggled with addiction.

Suffering is a human universal.

I didn't say lack of wealth, I said lack of stimulus at work. I don't actually believe that wealth makes you flourish.

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