BRUTE wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:23 pm
lifestyle diseases are why health care costs are exploding. it doesn't really matter which system of (re)distribution is used, the costs are simply too high. the only way to make health care affordable for almost all humans it to make almost all humans not have lifestyle diseases - which is a cultural long-term issue, nothing a law could fix.
My thinking is changing somewhat on this. The more I learn about
transgenerational epigenetic inheritance the more I realize that what we call lifestyle diseases are actually highly influenced by the lifestyle of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Hat tip to Jennypenny who has been saying a version of this for years.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/251885-yo ... ndpa-eats/
If your grandfather suffered famine from ages 9-12, you will have 1/4 the risk of heart disease than non-famine suffering grandchildren. Not only heart disease. The grandchildren show significantly lower incidence of all lifestyle diseases. So much so that on average the famine-grandchild lives thirty years longer than the grandchildren of those who did not suffer famine. Thirty years! Shit!
The more we learn the more of these intergenerational ghosts in the machine we discover. This shadow aspect is going to compound as we continue to live self-harming lifestyles. It will snowball.
Obviously, you are not responsible for the lifestyle of your grandparents. Is it fair that you'd be kicked off of your health insurance policy because your grandfather was pre-pubescent in a time of plenty? If not, then the only real solution is to influence those things that are within our control......
BRUTE wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:23 pm
at the same time, this would prevent heavy-handed lifestyle controls that would certainly come up even more to get humans to have "skin in the game". examples are the soda taxes proposed in some parts of the US. brute isn't for soda, but the idiots in charge will likely go for fatty foods next, which brute very much enjoys.
You cannot change your grandparents. There is plenty you can control. We should be discouraging bad habits.... and maybe consider a policy of caging and starving pre-pubescent boys.