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As far as I can tell, the intended meaning of the question in the title is "how long until everyone who wants Ozempic can have it?".

But at first I read it in a more cynical and sinister way, the more literal interpretation - how long until everyone is on weight loss drugs?

In a world where such medications are normalized, fast-food/processed-food companies might just work harder to make their products more addictive and pervasive, and then we're all back to square one.


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bobro10/11/2024

Seems like all the incentives have been in place for us to have already maximized food addictiveness. We have to at least be pretty far up the S curve. I’d guess just the opposite actually, that companies will refocus on the healthfulness of their products now that customers aren’t as susceptible to the addictive aspects.