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gastrocraft t1_iyc0fyl wrote

Reply to comment by OutOfBananaException in Will beautiful people lose most of their sexual market value in the coming decades? by giveuporfindaway

What life is like in Japan does not tell us anything relevant to what life in America will be like when the stock value of “thin” is reduced to nothing because it will no longer be scarce. To say nothing will change is not thinking deep enough about the implication of zero obesity.

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Baron_Samedi_ t1_iyc285b wrote

Most Americans were lean when I was growing up.

I remember that we spent more time outdoors than people seem to, nowadays.

Army recruiters had an easier job.

Diabetes was more rare.

There were rich people and poor people, mean people and kind people...

"Body positivity" was an unknown phrase. Fat shaming was more culturally accepted.

Maybe being a bunch of lazy fatasses will be the thing that saves us.

The horror shows of WWI and WWII would have been a lot more complicated to produce, if only we had all been a bunch of fat fucks.

Ain't nobody got time to dig trenches or try to outrun bullets when they are tubby.

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