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It's the final day of dry January. I tried it. Didn't last. I'm now drinking, again, like a Pan Am pilot in the 70s. Anyway, the 22% of U.S. adults who abstained from alcohol this month will get a personality upgrade just in time for the Super Bowl. Ostensibly, the Super Bowl is a contest between the two best football teams, but really, it's a platform for the real economy. The addiction economy.
As Matthew McConaughey says in the latest ad from Uber Eats, quote, the whole game is basically an elaborate scheme to make you buy more food, unquote. Super Bowl ads are a proxy for the addiction economy, as advertisers for the food industrial complex, beer and alcohol brands, online gambling, crypto, and social media platforms offer you dopa on demand. But there's a downside to gorging, no?
Not to worry. There will also be ads from the medical pharma industrial complex for products that manage some of the damage. Pundits claim we live in an attention economy. We don't. Attention is just a metric for addiction. The addiction economy is broader, encompassing media, technology, alcohol, tobacco, gaming, pharma, and health care.
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