"The article examines the issue from many sides. But..."the ethic to consume"? Was that market ethics or marketed ethics?"
It's usually a safe maxim that there will always be cakes and ale. While I thought that was an interesting angle on the topic I'm not really sure that consumption relates to social circumstance as much as it suggested (except perhaps in so far as people are accustomed to being able to consume whatever they please; prohibition might be marginally more successful in a culture more geared towards abstention i.e. of alcohol and nicotine; I doubt it though). I suspect that leaves the answer as still mainly the former, particularly given that demand tends to outstrip supply (which would not be especially good marketing; the ideal would be demand management). Of course, marketed ethics aren't entirely easy to apply here. It's not as if drug dealers can run advertising and PR campaigns.
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