If it's free, then you are the product
If it's free, then you are the product
Posted Sep 8, 2026 19:19 UTC (Tue) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)In reply to: If it's free, then you are the product by taladar
Parent article: A note on subscription prices from LWN
Of course we spend more on healthcare per capita. We're a bunch of fatasses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesit...
3/4 of Americans are fatasses versus only 1/4 of Canadians. Fatasses have a _LOT_ more health problems. You don't think MAYBE that might have more to do with our increased per capita healthcare spend than "gr33dy 1n5ur4nc3 c0mp4n135?"
Astoundly, as far as I can tell, NO ONE doing these per capita healthcare spending comparisons has ever bothered to try to normalize by percentage of fatasses -- even though you'd OBVIOUSLY have to do that if you wanted to generate good numbers. I therefore infer that those people must have a goal other than generating good numbers.