Things I still can't do in November 2014

I'm not sure what fat people cost the taxpayer. Given that they typically pay their own medical expenses, I would guess not a lot.

Also, clearly their sad state of affairs is due to the quirky American agricultural and food processing industries. France doesn't have this problem with obesity and neither did the US in 1970.

I don't see him crying out for a special tax on Monsanto. Maybe because his portfolio would take a hit.

Either way, this facebook post is pretty representative of the inhuman views that American neo-royalty holds.

It is called Google Helpouts[0], and it isn't going very well. Reason why - almost everybody overvalues what their advice is actually worth. People who can provide value usually already are through their usual economic activity - be it a job or entrepreneurialism (ie. If your advice was worth something, you'd already be monetizing it).

Websites that create Shingy[1] As A Service type markets around paid advice often just become cesspools of psychics and webcam sex operators.

[0] https://helpouts.google.com/home

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/crystal-ball-3

> 13. Keep track of where everybody in my team is physically right now.

I think we can kill two birds with one stone here. Your team is collared, right?

I can pick an obese individual out of a crowd and go "That guy is fat because he eats too much. Dude... have some self control, stop eating so much, buy healthy food, do some exercise, learn to cook for yourself."

Focusing on an individual, all these things may be true, and one may seek to place all the blame on that individual. However, take a step back and look at the cohort of obese people. When entire swathes of society are suffering from these problems, I don't think you can point your finger and blame every obese person for "stuffing their faces."

What collective forces are acting on the majority of the population that results in them eating poorly, not exercising, putting on weight year after year, etc?

The more and more I've read about psychology, self-awareness, political science, etc, and observed how the media and business interests clearly influence behavior, the less and less I feel it's a viable position to attribute individual blame to "fat people" "poor people" "homeless people" for what are society wide issues.