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Human beings are so complicated compared to other species - if you're a male wolf the boffins will look at your kills and what you provided to your wolven kids to establish why you procreated successfully, for humans it's gone so beyond that now.

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How did such a rich country get so fat? This seems to run counter to every public health argument I read in the UK which says that deprivation based on low income correlates with more fatness. Nevertheless, this current set up where the rich pays a lot does sound like a good deal.

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There's a true argument about income and fatness - being fat used to be proof of the income to be fat, therefore fashionable. Up into, maybe, the 1930s? Then it swtiched. Like being pale skiined and then tanned. The switch from a tan showing having to work in hte fileds to a tan showing you could go abroad.

There's also the untrue argument about fat which is used today. But you've spotted that one already.

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Charging 5% ( works out at 20 years) of the value of the patent would be a better way. IMHO

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