re: Patients taking Eli Lilly's retatrutide lost 58 pounds, on average, in a phase 2 clinical

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For someone working 10-12 hours a day, commuting another 2, there isn't much time or energy to prepare healthy meals, eat right, or exercise. Also it's hard as hell to get 8 hours of sleep during the night due to having to corral kids. None of this adds up to the ability to lose weight on our own.

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You don’t need to “eat right”. You need to eat less.

The pills force you to do that. Great, it will help with the obesity epidemic.

But what will it hurt? What are the externalities?
We never think about that’s. Once someone can make money off of something and the harm from it is isn’t immediate and obvious, it’s a done deal.

Personally I think anytime we insulate people from the consequences of their own actions, we get worse as a species, so I think these pills are going to be a net negative.