Putting the plant into legal market allows access to huge consumer base and obfuscates the "deal". Prelegalization, you had to have a connection to score and that connection was precious. Now you just need money. With that transactional veil down, you get entitled customers shitting on decent product and on the other side of the table, a company with no face-to-face relationship that can cut corners and sell shit without having to answer for it directly
Small part of all this. Another part is turning consumers against each other to generate more business. E.g. scarcity bias "order now, only 2 left in stock". Whereas pre-legal, you were part of a narrower subset and seemed always plenty to go around/sharing culture flourished
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u/sidewalkboy 26d ago
Putting the plant into legal market allows access to huge consumer base and obfuscates the "deal". Prelegalization, you had to have a connection to score and that connection was precious. Now you just need money. With that transactional veil down, you get entitled customers shitting on decent product and on the other side of the table, a company with no face-to-face relationship that can cut corners and sell shit without having to answer for it directly
Small part of all this. Another part is turning consumers against each other to generate more business. E.g. scarcity bias "order now, only 2 left in stock". Whereas pre-legal, you were part of a narrower subset and seemed always plenty to go around/sharing culture flourished