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How Long Gone

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The Sackler Family Asks Us to Sell Us the Disease

The New York Times ran an article about a woman who lost her social media business because she was no longer able to make as much money from being an influencer. The story got some pretty dedicated ink in the New York Times style section. Chris: I just want to say on the record, this is absolutely insane. This is not interesting. It's more meaningless than an article about podcasters. Every single person who every single child team, the ultimate goal is no longer to be a rock star or a musician or an athlete. But the fact that they're framing this is like, I just don't understand what it means.

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