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Guys, it's all settled. Dutch pulled himself up by his bootstraps so anyone should do it. And Rainmaker has solved the health epidemic so we're good!
In all seriousness, there are a variety of factors that come in to play and I don't know them all. As somebody who was making $1200/month as a grad student (and thus working 80 hrs/week) I can say how easy it was for me to buy some frozen Boca patties, some sauce, and some cheese, and live on fake Chicken parms. I'll also say that when I got off work (sometimes very late) the last thing I wanted to do was shop, or think about shopping. Sure, I could shop, but I didn't. I was fucking tired. There are always tons of circumstances we don't think about.
As somebody who works in a health-related field, there are a ton of people who don't think eating chips and shit are bad for you. Maybe they are dumb, maybe they don't care, but I'm not in their shoes. I see people come to clinic that are on their lunch break from working their shift mopping floors in McDonalds, taking some buses, and probably get subsidized food there. They are not all educated about food, most don't have transportation, and many have kids that will grow up the same way. You can continue to thump your chest talking about how you made it, or you are smart enough to know about calories, or you can acknowledge maybe for some people it is more of a struggle, or more than they can handle. Fine for them, but they are passing it off on to their kids and we should probably step in and do something.
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