ozempic for money
a rich guy in a ferrari will be what a double chin was to a 1730 peasant
Ozempic is an expensive weight loss drug.
(we are math people here. people are double paying, once for food and once for ozempic, when they could’ve just… not eat? very economist joke)
to be fair — this is a US-first phenomenon, and only because FOOD IS NOW IN ABUNDANCE.
abundance and status
I eat the same food everyday. 2 acai bowl, 2 oatmeal, 5 collosal shrimp and 7 coffee. food is a solved problem for me, so I torture myself for fun.
but for most of history it was THE unsolved problem.
for ten thousand years calories were scarce, so fat was wealth. kings were fat, peasants were thin, and painters painted soft round bodies. you paint what’s expensive.
monopoly man has that belly because in 1936, that’s what rich looked like.
then abundance (and McDonald’s) flipped everything. calories got cheap.
thin became the flex, because thin was what still cost something — time, discipline, a trainer. scarcity doesn’t disappear. it migrates, and status follows it.
now ozempic deleted even that struggle.
so what’s left of food, after survival and status exit?
post-capitalism
the future is starting to look a lot more like Star Trek than Star Wars.
AI and robotics are about to do to wealth what industrial farming did to calories. agents that run your business, farm yields, and exit trades optimally while you sleep.
when money can be farmed, it proves nothing about you. a rich guy in a ferrari will be what a double chin was to a 1730 peasant.
ozempic for money
here’s the thesis: there will be ozempic for money.
when the struggle goes, the meaning goes with it. having a lot of money won’t be cool — the same way being fat stopped being cool the moment calories got cheap.
money is mid-arc. money in 2026 is food in 1900.
food is fun; so should money
right now, nothing about money is fun. working isn’t fun. trading isn’t fun. even gambling isn’t fun: a casino needs you to misread your odds to enjoy yourself.
there’s a field for fixing this (this publication) — memenomics, the study of liminal economies: economies born to die. every economy ends anyway; the rug is never the ending, the rug is the lie about the ending.
musical chairs is a market every five-year-old understands, and knowing the music stops doesn’t ruin the game — it IS the game.
games are fun even when you lose, because the constraints are explicit and agreed upon.
after ozempic, the best thing left to do with food is share a meal.
after the ozempic for money, the best thing left to do with money is play.
make money fun — making or losing. that’s the whole job.
(btw steam approved my anti-capitalist capitalist game that will somehow piss off the communists. wishlist it here)