Cornellius Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 I'm just going to quote my own comment: This video is utter nonsense. This asshole obviously is calling for political action, like Bloomberg banning large sodas in New York. The only real cost of a big mac is: its retail price and the fact that it's not vegetarian, for those who are against meat... but again, it's by no fault of big macs, it's your choice whether you buy it! Oh, big macs have calories because they have meat, and they have bread? They're salty? Well don't binge on them if you don't like that! What an effing pretentious twat! I know, I know. I don't have to change people. I am my own proof. It's a challenge I have on my hands.
NeoEclectic Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 Agreed. Just like that mother that tried to sue McDonald's a few years back for making her daughter's mobidly obese. Nobody forced them to eat there breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, and late night snack. And to claim ignorance of the lack of nutritious value in Big Macs is the same as a smoker saying I didn't know I could get cancer from doing that.
ThatAtheistPlace Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 First of all, his monotony was driving me crazy after 5 seconds. Secondly, even if this is just an unbiased objective look at environmental, health, and economic factors in a series of video observations.... what insurance does this affect??? And why, out of all fast food, junk food, and even McDonald's food, would he single out one sandwich? Look out for my new video, ya'll: How video games, consoles, makers, players, systems, stores, companies, and industries are evil. GTAV has violence and raises your cortisol levels by eleventy hundred%. Health: D GTAV uses 187,000 pounds of plastic over the span of a millennia. Environment: D GTAV sold 30 million copies so far. Economy: B. Overall score? D+ For more videos on how things are evil check out housingappraisals.org
Cornellius Posted November 6, 2013 Author Posted November 6, 2013 GTAV has violence and raises your cortisol levels by eleventy hundred%. Health: D GTAV uses 187,000 pounds of plastic over the span of a millennia. Environment: D This is exactly the kind of s--t that actually creeps me out in lefty dialogue. This startling overdramatization.
LuckyNumber23 Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 Externalities are not priced in the cost. Important to keep that in mind. There may be positive or negative externalities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality The negative of eating too many Big Macs would be that you would have to pay higher premiums in insurance when a lot of people went on the McDonalds diet.
Cornellius Posted November 6, 2013 Author Posted November 6, 2013 Externalities are not priced in the cost. Important to keep that in mind. There may be positive or negative externalities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality The negative of eating too many Big Macs would be that you would have to pay higher premiums in insurance when a lot of people went on the McDonalds diet. It is contradictory to say that you can have an effect on the selling of an unhealthy product which is so monstrously overused by people that it raises health insurance premiums by individually boycotting it in your routine. The action of putting a bad product (for whatever reason incl. externalities) out of market isn't initiated by you choosing not to buy it, but by the knowledge that makes it seem like a bad product. The only way in which boycott disqualifies a product is where knowledge of its shortcomings incites investors and collaborators to turn it down, or where the same knowledge transmitted to the customers in a market leads to its failure.
LuckyNumber23 Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 It is contradictory to say that you can have an effect on the selling of an unhealthy product which is so monstrously overused by people that it raises health insurance premiums by individually boycotting it in your routine. This is not how insurances work. A premium is based on your behaviour as well as those of others. By doing so you can minimalize risks. I did not suggest boycotting it. The only real cost of a big mac is: its retail price and the fact that it's not vegetarian, Also interesting to note, that you now see the externalities of a product. One of the effects of "normal" Murrican diet are higher costs in medical treatment due to obesity, diabetes, and several related health issues.
Cornellius Posted November 6, 2013 Author Posted November 6, 2013 Also interesting to note, that you now see the externalities of a product. One of the effects of "normal" Murrican diet are higher costs in medical treatment due to obesity, diabetes, and several related health issues. No! This is exactly what I was disproving!
nathanm Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 This asshole obviously is calling for political action, like Bloomberg banning large sodas in New York. I disagree, it's not obvious at all. If you watch the rest of their playlist on their channel they have videos for a whole bunch of stuff. I just see a list of statistics laid out with some nicely done animationpost production work. I feel indifferent about most of them and I think the whole grading system is a bit silly and arbitrary, but there's no call for political action in the videos that I've seen. Most of them are advertising for an insurance advisory company.
LuckyNumber23 Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 Then you have a hard time explaining the rampant obesity.
ThatAtheistPlace Posted November 7, 2013 Posted November 7, 2013 Public schools and the government subsidizing the corn and beef industries. Also, the government basing nutrition guidelines on what the subsidized dairy and beef industries, who they have allotted a monopoly, dictate.
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