[SamAdams76]

Cheap processed food combined with a welfare state has now caused a situation where the poorest people are actually the most likely to be obese, something that has never happened before. They are also the most entertained poor people ever and the least physically active. It’s like a sci-fi dystopian story. It’s hard to imagine any sort of civil unrest while these conditions exist.

You pretty much summed it up! Very well done.

One thing that has changed drastically since I grew up was that working class neighborhoods used to be full of kids hanging around outside. Some of them looking for trouble but mostly kids playing stickball, street hockey, or just riding around on their bicycles. Now those streets are totally empty. Even on perfect summer days.

Almost all children these days are cocooned inside playing Nintendo games or binge-watching something on the TV. Many of them getting fat and out of shape in the process. There are some real gaming addicts that I personally know in my family. Morning to night it is almost 100% spent in front of a game banging away on those joysticks. One reason I never allowed them into my home. I consider video games as bad as crack cocaine.

[Ransomed]

I think video game/smart phone addiction is maybe a big part of why violent crime is way down. It seemed to drop with the rise of electronic entertainment. When you are obese and addicted to electronic media it’s hard to get off the couch much less get up to mischief.

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