[AnotherUnixGeek]

The fact that people throughout Asia and Africa are now having to deal with obesity is the kind of problem I like seeing. When I was a kid in the '70s, the doom-sayers of the Left were claiming that billions of people in the Third World would be dying of starvation in the decades to come (thereby justifying the usual leftist demands for more governmental control over peoples lives and more government spending). Instead, the actual complaint as we head into 2018 is that they're getting fat.

Again, it's a nice problem to have. The future we get is inevitably far better than the future the statist scare-mongerers predict.

[sparklite2]

True. But incomplete. As a kid, I was raised with images of children starving in China. The Iron Rice Bowl, guaranteed employment and cradle-to-grave security of the communists brought the food problem under control. Capitalism had little to do with that.