The study was talking about income, this is from 2021 but shows the threshold to be top 10% in income globally is $37k, so maybe up to $45k now, so yeah probably most people reading this.

alcohol only negatively effects one person

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands dead due to drunk driving, or the many women and children who suffer domestic abuse from alcoholics.

Alcohol is one of , if not the worst drugs for society because it can cause belligerence which can lead to violence, and it lowers inhibitions and cognitive capabilities causing people to do dangerous shit and failing horrifically and harming people like drunk driving.

In moderation has almost no negative effects

there is no safe level of alcohol consumption it is poison, and I say that as someone who drinks often.

The land of the rising sun becomes the land of the setting sun.

My mom got into one of these arguments on some controversy in my hometown. One guy commented that she was so dumb that her family tree resembled a tumbleweed. She took that as meaning her family had no roots so she commented back on how her family had been in the town for generations…