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[–] senpaithatignoresyou [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Maybe they want to groom the populous in a shape that allows their system to work?

Nothing exists in a vacuum.

I have wondered if the obesity epidemic is engineered, designed to shorten the age of the population so as to limit benefit payouts. Remember that social security was created back when the average life expectancy was in the 60s. The system was not designed for people to live to be 80, much less 100.

so how does a future society cope with having to provide healthcare and social security to 300 million people? Maybe it can't. So they have to find an ethical way to cull the population, or at least a way that they can get away with.

So we have these movements, the LGBT and the Healthy at every size movements. both advocate very self destructive life styles. One advocates become so unhealthy that you die at 50, right when you pay off your student loans, the other advocates getting a surgery that increases you chance for suicide drastically.

Suddenly the system is not drained so heavily, and it is left wit a "better quality" of person, one that is more "deserving" of benefits.

Or i could just be crazy. An utter nut job who sees patterns that don't exist.

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[–] senpaithatignoresyou [S] ago 

I doubt it will be slavery. Fat people are very unproductive, and a drain on resources. I also doubt that they would survive a prolonged recession.

Seriously, morbid obesity is more fatal than smoking.

One possibility is that the obesity epidemic is a hedge. Money goes into short term investment for feeding them and keeping them alive just long enough, then when enough of the population is obese or in culling stage, BAM something happens. Perhaps a shortage of diabetic supplies, or a health care system crash. Next thing we know the population is back down to 250 million or 200 million.

Then the real estate and job markets will return to 1980s levels.