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Redbeard's avatar

It seems like something similar has happened on an individual level, too. we can either seek to dominate others, or seek to dominate ourselves. It seems we have developed a modern welfare personality in addition to welfare state (i.e., emphasis on "happiness", awareness of health and connection to psychology and bodies)

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"large corporations whose profit-maximising incentive is to game our taste buds by maximising the taste hit."

This is no doubt true. Unfortunately public health also game this truth to feather their own nests. Big Tobacco has been an absolute boon for Tobacco Control. Big Tobacco Control is now itself a global billion dollar industry of academics and activist NGO's who all depend of there being a big problem for their continued existence. Hence the 'problem' of e-cigarettes and other safer forms of tobacco.

The nutrition industry has taken great notice of this and so now we have Big Food, Big Sugar, Big Soda and Big anything we don't like, all used to gather resources to themselves. The specter of David and Goliath is a favorite amongst these groups who use it to gain resources.

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