America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman

I'm not sure heroine is the right sample, I know digital products cause addiction like heroine, maybe cocaine would be more realistic when talking about possible increase in GDP, with all that heroin around the US population would be wiped out in a couple of gen

It’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs.

It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.

Well, didn't I say it was just the wrong analogy?