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No, it's not misplaced at all. At least in America, Food makers & their exec buddies and all kinds of other social-economic factors make it difficult to choose
by smtddr 13y ago
No, it's not misplaced at all. At least in America, Food makers & their exec buddies and all kinds of other social-economic factors make it difficult to choose otherwise. I've already had this debate before... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604104
Also, watch Food Inc. http://www.takepart.com/foodinc http://www.takepart.com/foodinc
The excuse that "Well, nobody forced them. It was their choice." is an elaborate illusion that needs to be done away with. There have been a couple of articles this year about how being poor causes bad decisions, not necessarily vice-versa. I'm glad those articles are being written because it shows at least a few people are starting to realize how the system traps people and others can be convinced it was they're own fault.
"Poor people, generally, make bad decisions—bad in the sense of their long-term physical, mental and financial welfare. But their bad decisions aren't the reason for their poverty. They're caused by it."
@http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decisions-or-poverty-thoughts-1450123558/1469687530/@maxread http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decision...
Growing up poor is bad for your brain
@http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/growing-up-poor-is-bad-for-your-brain http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/growing-up-poor-is-bad-for-...
- ams6110 13y agoI never said they were making good choices. But the fact remains if people didn't buy junk food, it wouldn't get produced. I have heard these arguments, and I don't disagree with them. I think that efforts would be better directed at educating poor people to make better decisions, than to act like a collective hovering mother and try to keep anything bad away from them. And we often end up being exactly wrong about what's good and bad anyway (see: the USDA food pyramid of the last two decades. It turns out we've had it basically upside-down). This is drifting way off topic of this thread so I won't say more here.
- dooptroop 13y ago".. rational consumers .."