AFAICS he's just hedging his bets for societal collapse, Island paradise, food and energy self sufficiency, supply of servants ...

Yields per acreage are actually stalling ... and we haven't even hit peak phosphorus yet. Also a fair amount of the technology we use to increase yields is not exactly side effect free, insecticides for instance are killing bees and making people retards.

How is the Egyptian government keeping water scarce?

What does hops have to do with anti-freeze? (Anti-freeze is generally sweet.)

India is more like Greece than China ...

It was more a semantic argument really ... when I hear anti-fat stigma or anti-fat bias I interpret that as being biased against fatness (ie. being fat is not beautiful or being fat is not healthy). Similar to how fat positive generally glamorizes fatness rather than assign positive personality traits to fat people.

Anti-fat person bias would be better term for what they and you are describing IMO.

Being obese will generally impact your health quite immediately, but I was more talking about people who are simply overweight ... which still has some impact, but in the bigger picture it's just not that big a deal.

But I was talking about the "treatment of obesity" ... to treat your obesity he needs to tell you (how) to lose weight, there is no alternative.

It might be more humane to accept the patient is a fat fuck who is never going to help himself in that regard until things get a whole lot worse and treat symptoms in the mean time and simply not talk about the real problem, but that will not help with the treatment of the actual obesity itself.

I "blame" fat people for being fat for the same reason I blame criminals for being criminals ... not because I don't recognize hereditary and environmental aspects, but because the concept of personal responsibility is rather important to a functioning society.

PS. if they don't feel self pithy, aren't fat enough to suffer health problems and don't care that I find it ugly then I don't really blame them ... it's just a lifestyle choice which doesn't really impact me.

"anti-fat stigma is so prevalent and a significant barrier to the treatment of obesity"

Being fat-positive would help with the treatment of obesity?

Government spending in the form of social safety nets and common (natural monopoly) infrastructure construction is vital ... everything else can be handled by taxation. Taxation is a dirty word in the modern world though, so debt it is the alternative ... and the advantage of debt is that it's mostly hidden from the voters, in the short term, so they are more likely to accept government waste/corruption.

Proven? Prove it ...

US has had a trade deficit going on 4 decades ... the US has never been the charitable one in this game.

Labour at zero cost is a scarce resource, that doesn't preclude jobs above subsistence cost being scarce too ...

Why would the bosses hand out Jetson's job to lots of different people working 5 hours for 2 days out of the week ... much more efficient to have someone there longer, less shift hand overs means less room for mistakes. Unless the law demands it, the jobs won't be spread out across the entire population.

Labour can't pull itself up by the bootstraps either, since natural resources ARE scarce ... there is no more land to homestead.

That depends if it's rgb or ycm, rgb has low max brightness/contrast (more grey than white) without active lighting ... but ycm might have trouble with viewing angles (it's hard to say no one has demonstrated one yet).

That said, they have a youtube clip showing a rgb display playing a pokemon cartoon and with the right lighting and content even rgb can look amazing ... but not good enough to displace black and white for text.

They also get richer despite the taxes ... which is unsustainable in a non growing economy.

Mobility is irrelevant, they are capitalists ... not the middle class engineers and entrepreneurs which a country really needs to sustain a standard of living. The ultra-rich have an extremely inflated sense of import, them leaving the country is not a brain drain. Them leaving and being allowed to take away profits on domestic capital to foreign countries year after year with negligible taxation ... that is the problem.

It's quite easy to structure taxation such that the only thing they can with them is their brains and some fixed assets which won't affect the current account balance year after year though ... at which point losing them becomes entirely irrelevant, hell it becomes a net benefit.

Not necessarily forms of taxation the WTO agrees with though ...