The crack trade was a fast-paced business that required a 24/7 operation to make big money.

The crack business model was different from powder cocaine sales, with customers needing constant access to dealers to buy small quantities of crack to get high for short periods.

tautology is a word we don't use very often.  It doesn't come up in relationship to ecological   processes as often, I think, as it should.

Historical geometric growth revealed by this data suggests an average growth rate of 7.9% per year, which we extrapolate to 2050.

crack up capitalism that is a form of economic activity 00:04:47 propagated by people whose profit model and their kind of a normative vision of change and the social future relies on an idea of an accelerating process of social dissolution and an accelerating process of political 00:05:00 fragmentation this is a form of this is sort of a profit model and a kind of a political vision that sees an acceleration in the near future and the medium-term future 00:05:14 of processes of political crack-up

A philosopher might miss appointments, but so might someone with a propane torch in his apartment, even if he is a philosopher.