Recent, related, long-form article from the New Yorker<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/will-the-ozempic-era-change-how-we-think-about-being-fat-and-being-thin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/will-the-ozemp...</a>
Reminds me a bit of the Covid-Vaccine from Biontech. The small (220K inhabitants) City of Mainz was able to pay all it's debts within one year just due to the Taxes paid by them. And it shifted the state of Rheinland-Pfalz from receiver to giver ob subsidies to other states.
This article tells more about the drug: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaglutide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaglutide</a>
Billions in sales in an economy of $400B per year is affecting the economy?<p>I would assume that things like energy costs would have a far bigger impact.
We see the problem of coincidence of wants here with regard to currency transfers, and the real effects of attempting to alleviate it. National currencies just don't make sense in a globalized economy.
Paywalled, but I recently listened to one of the vegan doctors (I think it was McDougall) talking about these. It’s pretty crazy stuff.<p>Also, as an aside, it’s amazing to me the lengths to which people will go simply to avoid changing their habits.<p>My endocrinologist has plant-based diet material all over her office. She tells her patients that she’d be out of a job if everyone would eat a healthy (McDougall, Gregor, etc) plant-based diet. Almost none of her patients follow her dietary advice.
Nothing more american than self-medication using drugs that should be for diabetics, leading to both diabetics ending up in life threatening conditions because of a lack of said medicine, as well as a high likelihood of suicidal thoughts and self harm coming from the use of said medicine (<a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-statement-ongoing-review-glp-1-receptor-agonists" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-statement-ongoing-revi...</a>)<p>Watch as how, miraculously, every famous actor, singer, public personality that was overweight suddenly got thin because they decided to just "start exercising" a year ago, exactly as the time where Semaglutide's effects were starting to be known.