my_opic_farseer
my_opic_farseer on Hacker News
Paired with a corrupt government, poor infrastructure and corrupt officials... they might have some really bad standards. Not to mention all that racism and toxic culture. Although both are as much symptoms as the rampant abuse of drugs.
Maybe the CIA just ran out of blacks and chinese people to sell drugs to, or got chased out of those areas by stronger and better equipped competitors and resorted to pushing pharmaceuticals to rural USA. Who would that surprise, nobody at all.
The condition of rural America is going to be the same condition in any other area dependent on a monopolized industry. Just you wait and see, "tech" is going to go through the same thing. In fact, it already is. Those "tech bros" are the same kind of shit bags that left rural American in a mess.