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[–] beetus_of_the_beasts 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
Corporations, maybe. But I don't see how the government can benefit from a fat and weak populace. Sure, it'll make us easier to control and subjugate, but a weak population means fewer eligible to serve in the military. It means higher healthcare costs and lower lifespans. It means greater wear on infrastructure and greater fuel consumption.
[–] bieberhole_69 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I don't think it would be so much of a greater wear on fuel consumption/infrastructure that they can't keep up with it. And weak doesn't mean we wouldn't have plenty of people strong enough and willing to be in the military, we're a country with 330 million people. The government definitely wants the populace to not question things and to just 'go with the flow' - because it makes it easier for them to make changes and do whatever they want without backlash. If they know they can get away with something to save money, for example, that we won't like but won't say anything about because we're too distracted by sports and junk food and the E channel and by keeping up with the Hollywood trends, they're much more likely to be able to implement it
[–] CowGoesShazoo 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Bread and circuses, my friend
[–] sh1tl0rd_of_ac1d 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I see this as just a symptom of ever increasing corruption & decadence of western civilization, maybe not necessarily intentional, just to avoid putting on a tin-foil hat, it is the result of humans just following human nature to be greedy.
I would say that, despite the occasional improvements in "social justice", (for lack of a better term), politicians are increasingly in the pocket of big business (military-industrial complex, wall street, corporations able to fund millions into political campaigns, etc). Then you have corrupt law enforcement (civil forfeiture, war on drugs, militarization of police, CIA/DEA having cocaine hooker parties & selling guns to cartels, overly powerful police unions, etc) & prison-industrial complex.... these things and overextending resources with near constant warfare (war on terror, war on drugs, war on christmas (joke) remind me a lot of the decline of the Roman Empire.
I might be wrong about this as I can't really call myself a historian, but there's no question that corporations are making huge bank off fat, lazy, & poor uneducated people.
Walmart was #1 on the Fortune 500 list in 2015... & where can we always be certain to find the most disgusting and egregious examples of fatty scum on FPH? Walmart.
[–] l23r 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The army of the not so distant future will mostly be fought with drones and other machines. Size won't really matter, so long as their fingers aren't too fat to push buttons.
I mean, hell, the US Army is already using video games to recruit people.
[–] Goater 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You don't have a Capitalist Republic in USA anymore. USA is a corrupt Corporatist society unfortunately.
Therefore, the corporations are basically the government through what you guys call "lobbying" and we call bribes, and we all know long term things like healthcare, lifespans, military etc mean shit to companies. Only short term goals apply in corporate environment. Thus, the massive problems starting to occur.
Whats the point in a corporation of building infrastructure that won't be completed until your dead and you make no money from it.