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Re:The Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013) by ZeroGravitas on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:39AM (#9678034)
Free market capitalism works really efficiently, except when externalities are present, at which point it efficiently exploits them to everyone's detriment. Your health is an externality to the corporations that make your food.
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Re:The Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013) by uptownJimmy on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:00AM (#9678085)
Brilliant. But completely incomprehensible to almost everyone.
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Re:The Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013) by Terr_ on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:50PM (#9681327)
"Sometimes it IS more profitable to poison your customers, even in the long-run."
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