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There is no doctor on Earth who goes to work and thinks "thank god for fat people or I wouldn't have a business".

There's plenty of doctors and surgeons who wish there were less fat people, because they enormously complicate doing surgery on and managing in hospitals.



> There is no doctor on Earth who goes to work and thinks "thank god for fat people or I wouldn't have a business".

I agree, but this isn't how incentives work.

Ultimately, there are billions of dollars at play here that rely directly on obesity. The mechanisms of the market and human behavior transcend moral judgement.


> There is no doctor on Earth who goes to work and thinks "thank god for fat people or I wouldn't have a business".

What about everybody that works in liposuction?


You mean the job that makes an irreversible removal of fat from your body? Repeat liposuction is considered unsafe, so you will find very, very few people who want to predate on someone via lipo.

They want to "fix you," too.




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