Gerd Willschütz riding da bike downhills
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But he hasn't much time for reading nowadays, and he doesn't really like reading. "At the moment I am spending ten hours a day in front of the computer and the rest sleeping or in a bar. I love reading... with a bottle of wine. But at the moment I have to earn money to buy the wine, ya know."
He argues drugs is a very political matter, keeping people quiet. The government has its finger in the game (if you include tobacco and alcohol) by all the taxes coming of drugs, and the common opinion that it’s the bad guys involved in the narcotics industry.
"At the moment I am spending ten hours a day in front of the computer and the rest sleeping or in a bar."
So you’re for the legalization of drugs?
"I just think life is easier, or complicated enough for me by not taking them. Of course I like a cold beer and a good wine. And I think there is a lot of bullshit going on around drugs, that would be gone in a second if two or three laws would change. Yes, I think if it would be legalized and people would be educated about drugs and what they can do we would have an easier life."
We get back at the cyberpunk track as we talk future with the enormous multi-national companies. As many other Downhill doesn’t like Microsoft and says he wouldn’t ever pay for any of their products. He sees the future as a world growing more tightly together, with the powerful enterprises being an important part and the computer networks connecting it.
"Take care," Downhill says before we part. "And remember: 'The street will find its own use for technology'."
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