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>- Retail spaces becoming venues to "try before you subscribe"
>- Restaurants becoming "social nutrition centers"
>- Shopping malls converting to "wellness districts"
Except for resturants, all of these have had problems for a long time. People have been talking about the death of shopping malls since the 90s.
Feels like other factors are in play here.
Jevons paradox applied to healthy people vs unhealthy. Healthy people create more demand not less. You order out you just order healthier. Healthier food is more expensive than junk food. You buy an expensive bike. More clothes. Healthcare is still expensive because people get older and older people need more care.
Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture our diminishing attention spans.
A lot of catchy one liner hook sentences ("they're literally removing concession stands from NFL stadiums!") that sort of add up to make the author's point.
I'm pretty sure fact checking line by line will make the whole thing less impressive.
The author is assuming that everyone will proactively start taking this drug. But I don't understand why? If Jerry is not obese, why would Jerry randomly start taking an anti-obesity drug?
If Jerry is a body builder he can get to whatever body fat % he wants.
If Jerry wants to save money or doesn't want to wake up early hungry he can do that too.
If Jerry has religious beliefs about impulses coming from shaitan, he can get rid of them.
Besides, 75% of Americans are overweight/obese that's pretty much everyone.
I would feel like an absolute failure if I need medicine to help create willpower. EDIT: under the assumption of an average person who is not under any medical condition that may result in lack of willpower
The author is assuming that everyone will proactively start taking this drug. But I don't understand why? If Jerry is not obese, why would Jerry randomly start taking an anti-obesity drug?
Because the author assumes that the drugs are not only anti-obesity drugs but impulse controlling
I have to ask, why? (I'm not in the US, I should add). Like, sure, is the average American overweight? Yes. Are 80% of the top 20% of earners? Seems pretty doubtful, plenty of the rich look to be in reasonable shape.
That statistic suggests that 80% of successful people have such poor impulse control that they end up seriously overweight or obese. And I say that as someone who likes a treat every couple of days, but exercises enough to maintain a fairly healthy weight.
Admittedly if there were a GLP1 for procrastination, I'd be on that stuff like a shot...
> When companies like Google see their healthcare costs drop by $12,000 per employee annually and productivity increase by 25%, we observe a restructuring of corporate America that makes remote work a minor adjustment. In my entire office, there's one overweight person that I know. Out of thousands of employees. There could be more, and other cities might be different, but you get the idea. The author intentionally o…
40% of Americans are obese and way more are merely overweight. Either your office is small, a huge fluke, weirdly selected or you're not observant enough.
Is GLP-1 really changing general impulse control? But I do buy the argument. If impulse controlling drugs are going to be effective, the economic impact is basically not quantifiable... not only the economic impact but it would change society as a whole in extremely fundamental ways (e.g. dating)
So this drug would mess with my head – am I understanding it right?