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I want to sell drugs | Ayesha Ahmad | TEDxGCULahore


I’m 20 years old
and I want to sell drugs today I’m here
to share my business model with you
since I believe that amongst you are
seated my very own customers employees
and most importantly my investors let’s
find out which one’s of you are which
see we all play multiple roles in
society now roles is a fancy way of
saying how we’re identified and
classified in society say for example
I’m a crafter an entrepreneur and a
student let’s have a show of hands how
many students do we have in the audience
teachers let’s go over general relatives
friends Wow congratulations you can all
be customers employees and investors
give yourself a round of applause let’s
talk about the product first so I want
to sell drugs that range from all over
the spectrum that means all kinds of
substances that can be used and abused
drugs that range from those that are
recklessly given to hush crying babies
to those that are available in trash
cans for the homeless from those that
are prescribed to patients to those that
patients self-medicate with from those
that help people do their jobs right to
those that help people forget the pain
of not having the job I’ll have
something for all of them and I have
something for all of you
I have incalculable profits from my
investors tons of produce to my users
and job security
my employees and this is not even the
good part we have a market of about
quarter of a billion people worldwide
and you know I thought that since
there’s so many of us why make this a
local initiative let’s sell drugs
let’s go global the good part is we can
make this market bigger we can create
and maintain demand
studies show highly effective ways in
which we can and have been a huge factor
that led these three hundred and twelve
million people into using abusing and
getting addicted to drugs how well
suppose a new batch of university
students walks in being seniors consider
it your moral not moral but consider it
your responsibility to encourage these
youngsters to experiment with drugs some
of you have already been doing this
haven’t you making people feel like this
is their only way to acceptance hear me
out
mud bun mud does any yoga do a cache
lavaca public executes a chicken sound
familiar
well let’s do more of what gets his
customers beer pressure gets us a lot of
customers do more of this
with more people some of these juniors
are genetically predisposed to becoming
repeat customers we wouldn’t want to
miss out on those profits yeah but I
wouldn’t encourage you to look for them
I’d encourage you to encourage everyone
you possibly can because once their
bodies get addicted they become a repeat
customer anyway why bother
this kind of fear pressure gets as
investors and customers and employees
yes
but there’s another kind of peer
pressure that guesses even more
employees and customers and investors
when societal norms and pressures and
expectations pressurize families into
abandoning dejected and rejecting the
needs of our customers we and our
products become their saving grace very
filmy a– unlike their friends we’re
healers we’re helpers unlike their
teachers neighbors and relatives we give
them shelter home and a future we never
abandon our customers and ladies and
gentlemen that is how we make even more
customers than we did with the peer
pressure mentioned earlier now there are
other bodies that help us promote our
products specifically the media by
positively portraying drug use the media
has specific ways of doing this mainly
for a the media tells our youths that
they need to be high departing you need
our drugs to have a good time be that by
using our drugs your cognitive ability
will increase your creativity will
improve you can make better art see the
media attaches meaning to the suffering
that results from addiction
they’ve lost anyone also the media
targets those in pain now needless to
say there are a lot of people and pain
in the world and they are ready to do
anything to feel better now of course
this could be hindered by promoting
better ways of catharsis but that’s
likely to happen because healthier means
of catharsis require more effort and
sometimes more money then injecting
sniffing and smoking your way to
now with the questioners the demand that
we’re creating by deliberately being
neglectful judgmental being the peer
putting in pressure or creating and
sharing media content that promotes drug
use how are we going to cater to so many
customers that we’re going to be getting
this question bothered me kept me up at
nights but I found the answer and here
it is as long as the weak links and the
criminal justice system continue to do
their jobs wrong were golden we can
continue to provide our customers with
produce problem solved
now I’m confident that I’ve reeled in a
lot of customers investors and employees
today and for those I still don’t have
convinced I’m not a monster I have a
kind heart I have your intentions for
the future I want to be like my mentor
Pablo Escobar I want to hand out cash to
the homeless I want to build housing for
them construct 70 community soccer
fields build a zoo and hey while I’m at
it I might even make a rehab and since
everyone says your ends justify amines
aren’t my means justified Wow some of
you investors don’t look enthusiastic
anymore about leading people from
addiction to death
well did I say why should we care why
should we care that we’re turning this
into this why should we care when we’re
making money off of it why should we
care we sell them a dream what if it
dooms them we sell them an experience
what if it takes them to the grave why
should we care we sell them free
who cares if it enslaves them we sell
them and escape
who cares if it takes them to the grave
I say why should we care why should we
care
we are seniors employees customers
investors we are teachers relatives
neighbors we are the general public I my
Shemin I’m 20 years old and if I haven’t
made myself clear yet I do not want to
sell drugs I do not want drugs to be
sold consumed used or gotten addicted to
I have realized that as long as the
attitudes of the general public towards
addicts don’t change no number of
seminars and rehabs no number of
resolutions
none of the awareness campaigns are
going to make a difference at the pace
that is required we are the general
public I’ve been very closely associated
with the number of people who are there
on the verge of death because of drug
use disorders and I will forever take
blame with everyone else who led them to
this state we’ve tried remedying the
damage we’ve done by beating it out of
them by abandoning them by rejecting
them let’s try being kind for a change
like true healer suggests let’s try
making a different world and if you
don’t feel the need to participate in
this act of change well then you might
as well send your checks orders and see
these two and ambitious drug lord
because from where I’m standing I see
that if we don’t make an active effort
to change more and more investors will
continue to profit more customers will
continue to die
more loved ones will continue to suffer
and more 20 year olds will want to sell
drugs thank you
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