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Toffeepud's avatar

It's happening in the UK with the obesity crisis. Made worse of course by ludicrous public health decisions to close leisure centres but leave McDonald's open.....we had a "sugar tax" a levy imposed on soft drinks to erm.....stop folk drinking them. Didn't work. Scrapped. I read numerous suggestions as to how the government can make people eat better, move more.....nobody gets it. Let folks make their own choices, sometimes those will be poor, but allow them to make them for themselves.

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York Luethje's avatar

The better German word for the top-down approach would be Zwangswirtschaft. Command economy.

Yes, I’m getting called a pedant all the time, why?

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