{"id":102282,"date":"2026-05-06T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102282"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:10:07","slug":"i-dont-want-a-solution-i-want-to-dismantle-our-socio-economic-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/06\/i-dont-want-a-solution-i-want-to-dismantle-our-socio-economic-system\/","title":{"rendered":"“I don’t want a solution, I want to dismantle our socio-economic system!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his Substack, Christopher Snowden<\/a> explains how “public health” is just another of the many, many anti-capitalist branches of progressive belief:<\/p>\n

Some people don’t really want to solve problems. They want to change the world for other reasons. That was the argument I made in Not Invented Here<\/em><\/a> last year, a multi-author IEA publication that essentially elaborated on this meme … <\/p>\n

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One example is obesity, which we are told can only be tackled by fundamentally changing the food environment, banning advertising, taxing more products and demonising “Big Food”. None of this has ever actually worked anywhere. We do, however, now have GLP-1 drugs that work wonders for many people.<\/p>\n

Plenty of “public health” academics are notably resistant to “fat jabs” because what they really want is to fundamentally change the food environment, ban advertising, tax more products and demonise “Big Food”.<\/p>\n

Take this article<\/a> from three self-described “public health scholars” in JAMA Health Forum<\/em>, for example. They object to obesity being framed as a “a disease requiring individual treatment” because, they say, it undermines public support for government action. They even complain that “medical societies consistently argue that we do need to both prevent and treat obesity” because treatment — i.e. losing weight — is something that individuals can do for themselves. Moreover, studies have shown that when the public hear about people losing weight on their own initiative, they are less likely to support population-wide policies such as food taxation.<\/p>\n