Opium, Morphine, Heroin: A Viral Sarcasm About Solving Problems Into Worse Ones
threepointone · x · 2026-09-12
Engineer threepointone went viral with a sardonic take on humanity's millennia-long quest for a "responsible use" of opium: it stops pain — cue the morphine epidemic; invent a non-addictive morphine — that's heroin; then give heroin to morphine addicts — "incredible work everyone." Widely read as a metaphor for technology fixes spawning worse problems.
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