WHERE TO PUT YOUR MONEY
Signs of the recession?
1) The biggest growth company around is McDonald's.
Fuelled by fear and small pockets, Americans and eaters world-wide are charging to the arches in record numbers. More than 1,000 new emporia will open around the double cheeseburger globe this year.
Conclusion? Poverty is not healthy. But we knew that, didn't we.
2) Pharma-giant Pfizer has bought almost giant Wyeth for $68 Billion.
Pfizer's biggest sellers?
Viagra, Zoloft and Lipitor.
At least, Lipitor has known recognizable medical uses. It's the number one prescribed pill to combat bad cholesterol numbers.
Viagra...well, you know. And Zoloft is one of those highly debatable psychotropic drugs which, aside from being monstrously over prescribed, are polluting our waterways after the anxious piss the residues into the sewage systems.
Wyeth's number one elixir is Effexor - an antidepressant. Only $4 Billion a year in sales. Lovely.
Conclusion?
Heart-stopping bad fat foods and questionable instant cures for daily stress are the growth industries and always have been.
Who knew?
We were busy eating salads and fish oils and riding our bikes. What ever were we thinking?
1 comment:
The saddest part is that buying bulk whole food and veggies is both cheaper and healthier than Mickey D's, and some regular exercise and a little less TV would probably do wonders for that depression for a fraction of the cost or less.
But that wouldn't grow our GDP, would it?
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