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Well, modern medicine builds on top of natural remedies, but it has standardized it and brought it to a whole new level. People get incredibly old and survive many diseases thought of as incurable a hundred years ago because of modern medicine. Just looking at the similar ingredients in some medicine and nature is not helpful but naive.

Doing meditation or other relaxing exercise on my back is usually not so relaxing because of it :/

Same, if I lay straight on my back for just a minute my bladder will start to nag me to go to toilet and it doesn't matter that I've just peed a couple of times in the last half an hour...

Ugh, at first they obviously sound pretty cool, but I feel like they are all about the aesthetic of changing the world, but with no actual approach to do so.

We relate to them because they had to stand by with their cannabis in their bag while the old white doctors came and put leeches on the son—the king's epileptic son—when they had the medicine for that... In the same way, we have to stand back with our medicine and watch chemo and radiation sometimes kill people without the benefit of restoration from healing plants.

Nope, telling people with cancer just to smoke pot instead of actually doing cancer treatment is really bad and causes unnecessary deaths. Also, you aren't like actual healers back then who had so much more experience in what they did.

We make medicine on a full moon and basically it's more feminine for us to do it by moon cycle. Each product that we make comes with a sticker on the bottom to show what moon cycle we made it in. It's a way of us coming together with the plant and Mother Nature and having that meditative time—being with the plant and making the medicine under the full moon. It just does something to us.

Like I said, it's all about the aesthetic, not much else...

Big Pharma has caused a lot of heartache, and a lot of deaths, and a lot of unnecessary treatments where people have exacerbated their incomes and their financial ways of living—especially the poor, the marginalized, the people that can't have access to this plant

Big pharma sure is evil, but instead of just blindly trusting in one plant to cure all and throwing all of medicine's knowledge out we could also fight for systemic change and free medicine from the grasp of capitalism.

Depends to what kind of church you go to. There are really nice old churches in Europe and even when they have a mass it is pretty relaxing, because European church service is much more boring than it is in most churches in the US I'd think. Basically just a person speaking in a monotone voice for an hour and sometimes everyone sings slow, monotone songs.

You could also look at insect penises for a living, a very common way of identifying species in various insect groups ;)

Well yes, the article is saying exactly that: that individual actions and consumer activism don't do shit and structural changes are needed. It even gives some examples for structural changes that could be helpful in the short-term.

I completely empathize with your frustration and I feel like individual actions are used as a way to give people some feeling of power that they don't have and that stays ineffective. It takes the pressure off of companies to change while giving people the feeling like the achieved something. And politicians in most countries don't have an incentive to change the system either because they live off of lobbying and may get a job at those companies later.

I added the anecdote in my original comment just because I was surprised at the scale that Amazon had an impact on the economy. And yes, it obviously didn't do much when I took individual action and boycotted them (apart from giving me a feeling of some integrity).

Well yeah, because the author of this article has invented the term and has given insightful explanations like in this article ;)

Really good article and worthwhile a read!

Let the implications of most-favoured nation settle in. If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store.

I haven't shopped at Amazon for well over a decade now, but apparently even I am affected by their business model...

Damn that's good!

Just to be clear:

1/4 of all mammal species are bat species.

But only a tiny fraction of all mammals are bats.

Or this might be a giant conspiracy and there are trillions of bats living in underground cave systems and only come out when no one is watching!

My thought exactly!