[username90]

People are getting fatter and fatter. It is much worse now than 20 years ago, and even much much worse than 40 years ago. Any explanation you can come up with needs to be able to explain this as well. Does poor people have worse access to food today? Do they have less money for food today?

If we put poor people in the same conditions they had 40 years ago they would be slimmer than rich people today.

[istjohn]

Over the past 30 years, grocery store prices have risen 4.5 percent above economy-wide prices, indicating that food has become relatively more expensive than some other consumer goods... Real prices for fresh fruits and vegetables grew the most among all major food categories, increasing just over 40 percent... Over the same time period, real prices for fats and oils, sugar and sweets, and nonalcoholic beverages grew less than overall inflation.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/july/growth-in-inf...

[8fGTBjZxBcHq]

Yes I know where you stand on this, I don't need more information about your opinion.

I asked if you see the conclusion of this view, and if you endorse it.

To be very very clear it goes like this: if poor are fat because they make bad choices and for no other reasons, then you can reasonably conclude that that is also why they are poor. That they deserve to be poor for that reason.

Is that a fair summary of your view?

[emteycz]

> That they deserve to be poor for that reason.

Where are they saying that? This entire conversation has no relevance to what one deserves. Causality is not changed by one deserving something.

[isoskeles]

That's not a fair summary of anyone's view, and you know it.