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ExchangeKooky8166 t1_j5zosuv wrote

Most of Reddit is a "socialism is inevitable" circlejerk with no nuance allowed, all capitalism bad.

I'm all for more social spending and a rework of welfare programs, but human prosperity has increased because of capitalism.

Rwanda, Cote d'Ivoire, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, etc are countries that have experienced fast economic growth by embracing free market principles.

Is it horrible that these people have low wages and many live in poverty? Yes. But the alternative is much worse, and history is full of full-on socialist regimes in lesser developed countries that failed.

Compare Bangladesh from independence to today. Those people are happy that you bought those clothes from their country.

I blame the Nordic circle-jerking for this attitude.

EDIT: Conservatives are also obsessed with this "left-wing economic collapse" too, it's all propaganda. Biden has done a good job.

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Atalung t1_j5zo47m wrote

The problem with that stat is that "obese" here is the clinical definition. I know several people that would be defined as obese but nobody would ever consider them that. That's not to say that there isn't an obesity issue, but the formal definitions are based off 19th century persons who had significantly different health statuses. BMI is useful for a population level tool and its nice to have decades of data, but it's not really useful for individuals

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AuntCatLady t1_j5zim2b wrote

My grandma lived to almost 90, and was essentially a ball with arms and legs until she hit her 70s and suddenly lost all her weight due to depression/being too sick to cook, and hating processed food.

However she was miserable the entire time, before and after, and was pretty much begging for death since her 60s.

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