Ozempic and Health: Late Capitalism a Survival Guide

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And when we talked about wealth last time and the fact that wealth, the root of the word wealth is actually well-being. And we've talked a lot about economics and these sorts of big picture issues because global financialization, but that is just the model, but it is applied to every aspect of our lives. And again, this is where the massive disorientation comes from. And we've talked about how this affects our interactions with our jobs and how we're subject to global forces.

But [clears throat] if you actually look at something like put that aside because again the money obsession is a thing right so even when we talk about the fact that we're driven to money obsession we use models of money which you know of course I've been doing this because it makes sense on one hand but you see there's a trap there and so I thought it would be worthwhile to step back again and look at and say hey let's look at this wellness thing this health thing this you know well-being issue that is really core to people functioning well and having good lives and being able to participate fully and do the things that we want. Health is the great uh you know arbiter of joy in many cases. And this I mean the Greeks talked about this, the Romans talked about this. They were very focused on well-being, physical, emotional, psychological health as being the core metric.

Like do not listen to an unhealthy person because clearly they don't know what they're talking about. right? They they they just felt this as a visceral truth. Um and this is why if if you've read the Socratic dialogues of Plato, one of the things that that jumps out at at least jumps out at me and and should have jumped out I think at many people, but it's rarely commented ...