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Well, try looking at the contents of shopping carts at the checkout lanes of your supermarket. A lot of folks in the bottom half buy a lot of pricey sugary dri
by DaveZale 1y ago
Well, try looking at the contents of shopping carts at the checkout lanes of your supermarket. A lot of folks in the bottom half buy a lot of pricey sugary drinks and ultraprocessed microwaveable frozen stuff. So they get hit in their wallets, their waistlines, even their teeth take a hit. Just saying: if they wanted to make better choices, they could. Starting with food choices. Maybe they don't know where to start.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoNot my downvote, but Isn't the junk food situation exacerbated because the money paid for it directly and through poorer health goes to the 1% more so than it ever did?
- DaveZale 1y agoI don't care about votes. Sure, private equity in the health (actually disease) care system gets fattened and who pays? Medicaid, medicare... prevention is not profitable to the 1% ? sure
- w0de0 1y agoYou’re absolutely right. Poor frugality is why we should be ok with “22% of seniors trying to survive on an income of less than $15,000 a year.” They’ve only themselves to blame. It’s their own moral failing, not society’s, really. All that is is for the best. If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere. It is impossible that things should be other than they are; for everything is right.
- DaveZale 1y agoMake America Healthy Again could be simpler than we think. I would not call it a moral failing though. Just a susceptibilty for flashy packaging, supermarket product placement, even extremely effective prime time and targeted online advertisements. Okay, go ahead, shoot the messenger, downvote me, facebooky zero attention span types.