“With regards to obesity, junk food is often times far cheaper than healthy food here, so that tends to be consumed more, and we see the result.”
Good post but I beg to differ ion that point a bit. It is cheaper to go buy a bill of groceries but “the poor” don’t like to come off that money all at once. No, I have seen many shop daily in a C-Store where prices are at least double. People who put $2 worth of gas in their car every day instead of filling up (because they don’t want to spend the money all at once)generally spend the same way with regards to food.
When I was in college, I worked at a C-Store next to some section 8 housing. The residents basically shopped daily in the expensive as hell, junk-food selling C-Store. As an aside, the owner of that section 8 housing turned off the water because people weren’t even paying their drastically reduced rents, as low as 25$ a month.
There is a reason people are “poor”.
Interesting perspective. I couldn't imagine buying any food in a convenience store on a regular basis. I'm also going to bet that lottery tickets were also a big seller.
It's called the bell curve. With 100 representing the mean, 90 is about as low as one can be before they are unable to perform even unskilled labor. 80 is considered clinically imbecilic, which means individuals can barely muster the organizational ability to get out of bed.