Oh, but the situation is even worse than that-- the Protestant work ethic already caught you (or us, or many people, whatever). I'm talking about the assumptio

Oh, but the situation is even worse than that-- the Protestant work ethic already caught you (or us, or many people, whatever). I'm talking about the assumption that exercise is some sort of pain for gain tradeoff that you would suffer through in exchange for a later reward, but is itself unpleasant or undesirable without the health benefits. This insiduous paradigm seems to be everywhere in (at least) American culture. And so the magic pill already exists! And there's no patent. No copay. No HMO can deny you it. And it's fun!