system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do we all think of crack addicts as gross homeless men but we think of coke addicts as rich millionaires when they're the same thing?
gpt
Because they are not the same thing. Crack is extremely cheap compared to cocaine.

Cocaine is for the rich, crack is for the poor.

The reason for this is because what crack is is freebase cocaine. The cocaine is combined with baking soda and cooked to make the smokable crack.