I'm not sure how this applies to my comment. I'm not saying anything about self control. I'm not against individuals taking GLP-1s. But, if we're at a point where we're all on drugs to treat lifestyle diseases, we should at least recognize that these lifestyles are largely chosen for us, and we should consider that doing something about that will reap us the benefits we're after.
Those benefits and a billion more! Better state of nature, richer social fabric, probably less political polarization if people were bumping into their neighbors more frequently instead of going from drywall box to steel box back to drywall box day in and day out.
>> Unfortunately, I have to drive everywhere, work too many hours to have free time for recreation and have no idea which government subsidy is going to help big ag likely at the expense of my health.
At what point do people stop letting the choice being largely "made" for them and choose something else? The gov subsidy has nothing to do with my personal health choices. My grocery store has the same fresh fruits & vegetable sections grocery stores in Europe have. I am lucky to live in a state whose dominate grocery store sources regional meats & produce, sells their own brand of food made fully or mostly with ingredients I can pronounce, and has complete whole food prepared meals for 1-2 people that take 25mins in the oven. [for the same price as fast food]
It's part of the reason I choose not to move. Other choices are a standing desk with a walking pad, which makes it trivial to walk 3-4+ miles a day. I could make more money studying leetcode and living in "elite" tech valley, or hustling for more work instead of choosing myself over the large house in swank community that society has picked as what is "success" for me. Eventually I chose to take less of what "they" told me to choose; at some point we have to realize the only person that is going to live with our choices is ourself. If GLP-1s is needed to help people get back or get to that point of realization, then maybe it's a blessing to undo all the ills we(society made up of our neighbors) all contributed to creating.
I'm happy you don't live in a food desert, live in a good neighborhood and have the means to move somewhere else if you wanted to. Not everyone has these advantages. I think we can all agree that these are good things and I hope we will do what we can to allow others enjoy them as well, because no one chooses to be in that situation, but it is largely a policy choice to keep it that way.
> and have the means to move somewhere else if you wanted to. Not everyone has these advantages.
I debated posting because this is the usual response, instead of seeing the point as, "we" continue to create this society not some magical "others". I am where I am because of my choices + the lucky draw of loving computers and a dedicated family that scrapped and saved and sacrificed to buy me my own computer as a teenager which helped me move out of the situation I was born in. And even that was better than many of the people I grew up with. So no, this wasnt some privileged post of someone who never walked 2+ miles to the corner store with their friend to pick up a half gallon of milk and pasty white "bread" with food stamps so they could have sandwiches for dinner.
[added: while this situation sounds bad it's better than where they (and many of my other friends) came from as they could have been deported back to there if found]
