This life expectancy in the US is buoyed by a scale of procedures that is mind-boggling. There are over 500k coronary artery bypass graft procedures each year (take an artery from your leg and graft it on your heart because your heart artery is failing). Just as many are on dialysis because their kidneys are failing. I am not trying to suggest that these people should not be helped with these life-saving treatments, I am merely underscoring the extreme lengths that the american medical system goes to compensate for a deadly western diet pattern at the root of these ailments.
I highly recommend shifting diet towards mostly whole or minimally-processed plant-based foods, along with consuming animal products and highly processed foods sparingly to age more gracefully.
one of those hidden value extraction mechanisms, or externalization of hidden costs onto society. a big mac has the immediate costs of materials and labor, but also the externalized costs, either manifesting in healthcare or shortened lifespan and decreased quality of life. not to mention the environmental damage of the meat industry and transportation and everything else
in other words these corporations are cashing out value from our future in the form of present profits. if time were flattened or all costs were somehow required to be paid upfront things like fast food would be a lot more expensive for corporations to mass produce.
Agreed. I’m interested to see how a supermarket in Germany charging some externalities for the items it sells goes. Because it seems to be just 9 products at one chain, I am a bit cynical regarding how much this will accomplish, but it will nevertheless be interesting.
This life expectancy in the US is buoyed by a scale of procedures that is mind-boggling. There are over 500k coronary artery bypass graft procedures each year (take an artery from your leg and graft it on your heart because your heart artery is failing). Just as many are on dialysis because their kidneys are failing. I am not trying to suggest that these people should not be helped with these life-saving treatments, I am merely underscoring the extreme lengths that the american medical system goes to compensate for a deadly western diet pattern at the root of these ailments.
I highly recommend shifting diet towards mostly whole or minimally-processed plant-based foods, along with consuming animal products and highly processed foods sparingly to age more gracefully.
one of those hidden value extraction mechanisms, or externalization of hidden costs onto society. a big mac has the immediate costs of materials and labor, but also the externalized costs, either manifesting in healthcare or shortened lifespan and decreased quality of life. not to mention the environmental damage of the meat industry and transportation and everything else
in other words these corporations are cashing out value from our future in the form of present profits. if time were flattened or all costs were somehow required to be paid upfront things like fast food would be a lot more expensive for corporations to mass produce.
Agreed. I’m interested to see how a supermarket in Germany charging some externalities for the items it sells goes. Because it seems to be just 9 products at one chain, I am a bit cynical regarding how much this will accomplish, but it will nevertheless be interesting.