So you can tell an obese person "hey, you'll probably die from this" and they do nothing, but offer them a few bucks and suddenly they shed pounds? Apparently

So you can tell an obese person "hey, you'll probably die from this" and they do nothing, but offer them a few bucks and suddenly they shed pounds? Apparently so. And I guess it's not much different than the people who can't do retirement planning. For some reason, many people are intensely focused on the short-term, and can't look ahead - even to save their own lives.