weed

Weed is better today, but you wouldn't get arrested for it back then

chocolate

Ah yes, the industry that depends on child labor, human trafficking, and slavery...

aspirin

Chew willow bark

It was paradise for a very small fraction of the population and rape/slavery/castration for the rest.

Yeah, today you don't buy agrarian slaves, instead you just magically get cheap bananas, chocolate, oil, lithium, etc.

Out of sight, out of mind?