Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules

Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by ttt11199907 on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:16PM (#38883366)

There may not be societal costs in the consuming country, but there are certainly negative externalities to the people/countries that produce the coffee beans

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by rootusrootus on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:07PM (#38884127)

I don't know, the guy in Kona running the coffee farm seemed pretty happy. And the coffee was great (and I typically dislike coffee! It was that good...)

In any case, legal production can be regulated in ways that illegal crops cannot. It's hard to draw a legitimate comparison.

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by bequanna on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:33PM (#38883634)

I guess I don't consider this a legit argument. You could point to negative externalities that are the result of literally everything humans produce/consume.

But if we want to use that metric, OK. I would venture a guess that the production of coffee yields a heck of a lot less suffering than the production of cocaine, heroin or meth. Any far fewer people consume the latter.

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by bb88 on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:46PM (#38883833)

Also to further your point: consider blood diamonds, mining of toxic substances, lead batteries, plastic in the oceans, etc.

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by ttt11199907 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:13AM (#38891164)

Yes! These are all things that rely on the subjugation and abuse of other human and are bad for our earth-spaceship

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