When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?
When people with a whole fucking lot of money decided they wanted to make a whole fucking lot more money by selling this snake oil to the uncritical, uninformed masses.
When people with a whole fucking lot of money decided they wanted to make a whole fucking lot more money by selling this snake oil to the uncritical, uninformed masses.
So … thousands of years ago? (C.f. “organized religion” for reference.)