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> these lifestyles are largely chosen for us

>> Unfortunately, I have to drive everywhere, work too many hours to have free time for recreation and have no idea which government subsidy is going to help big ag likely at the expense of my health.

At what point do people stop letting the choice being largely "made" for them and choose something else? The gov subsidy has nothing to do with my personal health choices. My grocery store has the same fresh fruits & vegetable sections grocery stores in Europe have. I am lucky to live in a state whose dominate grocery store sources regional meats & produce, sells their own brand of food made fully or mostly with ingredients I can pronounce, and has complete whole food prepared meals for 1-2 people that take 25mins in the oven. [for the same price as fast food]

It's part of the reason I choose not to move. Other choices are a standing desk with a walking pad, which makes it trivial to walk 3-4+ miles a day. I could make more money studying leetcode and living in "elite" tech valley, or hustling for more work instead of choosing myself over the large house in swank community that society has picked as what is "success" for me. Eventually I chose to take less of what "they" told me to choose; at some point we have to realize the only person that is going to live with our choices is ourself. If GLP-1s is needed to help people get back or get to that point of realization, then maybe it's a blessing to undo all the ills we(society made up of our neighbors) all contributed to creating.


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dfxm1210/11/2024

I'm happy you don't live in a food desert, live in a good neighborhood and have the means to move somewhere else if you wanted to. Not everyone has these advantages. I think we can all agree that these are good things and I hope we will do what we can to allow others enjoy them as well, because no one chooses to be in that situation, but it is largely a policy choice to keep it that way.

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