The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Business and growing jobs is about taking risk sometimes failing sometimes succeeding but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.