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senpaithatignoresyou ago

I doubt it will be slavery. Fat people are very unproductive, and a drain on resources. I also doubt that they would survive a prolonged recession.

Seriously, morbid obesity is more fatal than smoking.

One possibility is that the obesity epidemic is a hedge. Money goes into short term investment for feeding them and keeping them alive just long enough, then when enough of the population is obese or in culling stage, BAM something happens. Perhaps a shortage of diabetic supplies, or a health care system crash. Next thing we know the population is back down to 250 million or 200 million.

Then the real estate and job markets will return to 1980s levels.