… we have gone from a society that in the past has had starvation as a major worry to one where one of our biggest concerns is being overweight.
Roy, apropos of those remarks, I think this fellow from China summed it up best ? ironically in an article about all the woes the Chinese government faces from people growing old and fat instead of starving young by the tens of millions as in the good ol’ days:
Life is getting better. That’s why they’re getting fat.
“Life is getting better” ? i.e., life is getting like it is in the (relatively) freer West. But the state-socialists don’t like that; they want us all to act like trained monkeys ready to hoot and howl about freedom and wealth effects and people enjoying the fruits of their labors. Socialism failed to produce the more productive societies that it once promised, so devoted socialists have had to spend the last half-century moving the goalposts to make misery the hallmark of the ideal, Earth-virtuous society.
