Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
>there's a very Evil aspect of this: food with trans fat costs
>much_ less than a similar food without trans fat. If I were
>paranoid, I would suggest that the reason is Food Companies
>and Medical Companies are owned by the same evil, greedy people.
> You raise an interesting and important point. It is less expensive -
> sometimes *much* less expensive -- to eat unhealthy foods than it
> is to eat healthy. Maybe instead of subsidizing the military-
> industrial complex, the government could subsidize healthy food. :-)
Maybe the g*vernments _want_ this to happen. Old rich people sequester
their money and prevent the heirs to expend, so when old rich people
die, there's an inflationary pressure. Old poor people are a burden
to Social Services, because they generate no income and cost a lot.
So, the Maximizer Social Strategy is to let poor people die younger
than rich people.
>I'm only half-way kidding.
Me too - as always.
Alberto Monteiro
you may both be right. i suspect that young poor people are important
to the market because they are still consumers, but it is almost
impossible for them to accumulate the capital necessary to invest in
proper health care, property and other long term assests. it is no
wonder obesity is a problem with poor people since a large part of
their diet is starch.
jon mann
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