Imagine for a second that everyone had a magical cube in their pockets.
With the right permutation, you could materialize all kinds of food or drink.
At first, there was only one cube in existence and nobody knew what it did until after about a year of fiddling with the thing, someone found the permutation for water.
After that, they started to quickly figure out how to make more things like tea and avocados and all kinds of vegetables.
Over several years, they then figured out how to manufacture the cubes efficiently and inexpensively; and with a lot more cubes and plenty of people to play with them, things rapidly progressed to the point where they were making more complex things like kimchi, butter, or yogurt.
Cube users were increasing exponentially and the world was excited about this — it was going to cure world hunger, standard of living would increase across the globe, everyone would have infinite access to healthy foods!
A couple days later, beer was added to the list.
Then a bunch of hard liquors came out and a few people became slightly worried about the whole situation.
Then a couple weeks later, two guys from Virginia show up and say "Hey uhhh we just made cocaine with the cube." For the first time for most of these people, they were in a situation where they had access to a huge variety of choices at all moments during the day.
They could do anything from having the highest quality nourishing meal to deciding to add just one or two cookies to their lunch, or they could say "Eh work's not going so well, maybe a spot of cocaine would help." And that's kind of what we have with the internet.
