The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake – While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet
https://wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-trillion-disruption-the-unforeseen
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This article is interesting because it discusses the secondary effects of Ozempic, not about weight loss, but as a drug that significantly affects impulse control. Many aspects of our society and economy are impulse-control related, such as alcohol consumption and response to advertising. What affect will it have if these all shift due to this chemical treatment?
I started taking semaglutide, and in two hours the food noise stopped. That noise is part of the impulse system that controls other addictive behaviours. I haven’t lost much weight, but I feel so much better, that I plan on staying on it. It will impact society (for the better) if more people take the med.
From the article:
>Consider this: When alcohol consumption drops 40% (as it does for many people on these medications), we’re not just talking about lower beer sales. We’re talking about:
>- 45% reduction in DUIs
>- A 28% drop in violent crime
>- A fundamental restructuring of the social economy
>- A transformation of dating apps and social media engagement
>- A reimagining of every restaurant’s business model
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This is why the Trump Administration is going to ban it, they’ll make some bogus claim but it’ll really be in the benefit of the junk food and fast food lobbies.
This story is incredibly built around hype. This is not a thoughtful consideration of the economic impacts of these drugs, this is somebody who has a vague idea of how it is writing something that amounts to a work of short fiction in which they massively hype off the long-term consequences of these medications.
They are not bloody magic. They did not suddenly foundationally change how people behave.
I’m taking ozrmpev right now. I’m also on a diet. I have not magically shed pounds like nobody’s business, it’s not make me stop on it eat bad food, it didn’t magically radically change how I am. Because that’s not how these drugs work. They help yes, but they’re not a fucking miracle.
Hype train bullshit like this is little triggering for me.
Settle down! This is not the real world, this is some fantasy this person made up by massively extrapolating a little bit of data.
Did the article mention how this class/group of weight loss drugs may be causing unplanned pregnancies; how we’re not sure why or how it’s doing that?
This is a really new drug and we don’t know all of what it’s doing long term to people. There could be a lot more that it’s doing that we don’t understand.