Made Ya Think (MYT) Episode 012 Show Notes
Who Profits From Your Habits? Prohibition, Addiction, and the Hidden Incentives Behind Modern Life
What if prohibition never eliminated substances—it simply changed who controlled them? In this episode of Made Ya Think, Darrell Becker explores prohibition, organized crime, Rockefeller, social media addiction, and the hidden incentives shaping modern life.
Most people assume addictions emerge naturally.
But what if many of our habits were carefully cultivated by powerful interests?
In Episode 012 of Made Ya Think, Darrell Becker explores a provocative question:
Who benefits when a substance is prohibited—and who benefits when a behavior is encouraged?
From ancient psychoactive plants to the Boston Tea Party, from Rockefeller and Prohibition to social media algorithms, this episode follows a recurring pattern throughout history:
SEE THROUGH IT.
BUILD THROUGH IT.
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Music: Vivaldi – Four Seasons 4 Winter mvt 1 Allegro non molto – John Harrison violin.oga
General Show Notes with Music Attribution
Super-Commodity:
A desired good, service, or activity transformed by prohibition into a concentrated wealth-and-power engine.
- The commodity does not change; the legal environment changes.
- Prohibition reduces competition and creates extraordinary risk premiums.
- Hidden wealth accumulates outside normal oversight.
- Functions include wealth storage, settlement, bribery, corruption, covert funding, and power concentration.
- Examples: alcohol, opium, cocaine, cannabis, smuggling networks, human trafficking, and slavery.
- Core pattern: demand + prohibition = super-commodity.
- The mechanism—not the commodity—is the real discovery.
NOTE: Wikipedia links provided for basic mainstream grammar and narratives… just some optional starting points for your own research.
- Prohibition (definition)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prohibition
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prohibiting - Iran–Contra affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair - Episode 102 – Know Your History: Iran-Contra (The Corbett Report)
https://corbettreport.com/episode-102-know-your-history-iran-contra/ - STATEMENT OF FREDERICK P. HITZ, INSPECTOR GENERAL, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
BEFORE THE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_hr/980316-ps.htm - Gary Webb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb - Requiem for the Suicided: Gary Webb (The Corbett Report)
https://corbettreport.com/requiem-for-the-suicided-gary-webb/ - John Hancock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock - Henry Ford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford - Ford Model T engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T_engine - Nicolaus Otto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Otto - Rudolf Diesel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel - John D. Rockefeller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller - Standard Oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil - Episode 026 – Meet the Rockefellers (The Corbett Report)
https://corbettreport.com/episode-026-meet-the-rockefellers/ - How & Why Big Oil Conquered The World (The Corbett Report)
https://corbettreport.com/bigoil/ - Anti-Saloon League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Saloon_League - Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution - Trivium method of learning
https://www.triviumeducation.com/ - Schedules of Reinforcement in Psychology (Examples): Variable Interval Schedule
https://www.simplypsychology.org/schedules-of-reinforcement.html#Variable-Interval-Schedule - Frances Haugen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Haugen - Stafford Beer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
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