How many companies want you dead?

[Jack]

Following on from the smoking thread I thought this might make a good read for some folk out there. Its from the USA but I don’t think that matters much as its about multi-national companies.

An article about how major companies all feed off each other with no regard for you and I but only in the quest for even more profit.


Oh, don't even pretend to be shocked. You know it's true. You know there are simply a huge number of big, sweaty major corporations out there in big, sweaty capitalismland who claim to be in the business of feeding and caring for the human body, but who actually care about as much for your general health and well-being as a Republican cares for his meth dealer's lesbian daughter's organic free-range Vermont wedding.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/21/notes042110.DTL#ixzz10ATGt5v3 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/21/notes042110.DTL#ixzz10ATGt5v3)


I cant decide if Mark Morford is a nut job or a genius. :greengrin

[Woody1985]

Fairly simplistic article but quite interesting all the same.

It's good business for the health insurance companies mentioned to invest in high growth areas, which I assume fast food is given that lots of people are overweight now more than ever.

It may be that the insurance companies are offsetting their losses against the fat *******s that eat themselves into an early grave and then they have to pay out on the associated heath problems. I could be on sticky ground with that point as I know HI companies are notorious for wriggling out of claims.

Insurance companies are an easy target because everyone hates them but some we're forced to have. You could apply that to lots of companies, smoking companies, crisps, sweets even bottled water because if you drink too much it will kill you (maybe stretching things a bit far on that one but you get the picture!). It's the people that are the problem, not the companies. Yes, you can legislate against things but where do you stop? Ban everything that people can harm themselves with, assuming that's what people who write this kind of thing are calling for?

[lyonhibs]

"After all, the smarter and healthier you get, the more you are self-defined, attuned to wisdom and spirit, the less power and influence they have over your life, and the less they can sell you swill and poison, false hope and a sour idea of a bitter, vengeful little God concocted by surly white men in a dank Roman basement sometime around 300 AD"

Is this saying that those who are religious are in some way mentally unstable or not in control??

Sounds like a lot of left-wing bluster, which is just as bad as the right-wing bluster the margins of left claim to be blinkered evil etc etc. Obviously, the right wing bluster is just as bad.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Heineken have been trying to kill me for years, but I won't let the barstewards win.

I'd think the only people who really benefit from people dieing though are pension funds and undertakers.

[Woody1985]

Heineken have been trying to kill me for years, but I won't let the barstewards win.

I'd think the only people who really benefit from people dieing though are pension funds and undertakers.

Pension funds are crazy.

I looked at my expected payouts based on what I'd I pay in for the next 35/40 years and take my projected pension amount in todays terms and I'd need to live for 18 years after retirement to break even.

With my lifestyle I'll be lucky to make retirement age, especially the revised one. Personally, I'm taking the chance of sticking away a minimal amount for retirement and hope that I'll be dead not long after. I'm not kidding either.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Pension funds are crazy.

I looked at my expected payouts based on what I'd I pay in for the next 35/40 years and take my projected pension amount in todays terms and I'd need to live for 18 years after retirement to break even.

With my lifestyle I'll be lucky to make retirement age, especially the revised one. Personally, I'm taking the chance of sticking away a minimal amount for retirement and hope that I'll be dead not long after. I'm not kidding either.

I think the pension funds might be quite happy if more people take that attitude. I'm pretty certain there's a big pot of zilch waiting for me. Fair enough, but they used to always give us rotten pay rises on the grounds that a non-con pension was a benefit in kind.