rant · moment 10 of 28
What Business Would You Even Open Now?
from Eric Swalwell, The Great Layoff, & We Endorse Katie Porter | The Tim Dillon Show #492 · #492
4 min
Tim runs a thought experiment about what business anyone could realistically open in today's economy given homelessness, addiction, paranoia, and GLP-1 drugs cutting into the 'fatty' business market.
- Tim poses a thought experiment: what business would you even open in this country right now?
- Describes the urban landscape of homelessness, joblessness, drug addiction, and graphic physical deterioration in American cities.
- What business excites you now when people are terrified of each other, scared to be in public, and waiting for Iranian drone strikes?
- Americans are heavily medicated and terrified their GLP-1 shots will wear off, leading to uncontrolled eating or stomach explosion.
- GLP-1 drugs are disrupting businesses that traditionally marketed to overweight people—frozen yogurt, bakeries, smoothie shops, burger joints, quesadillas.
- Tim lists calorie-dense businesses aimed at people eating alone in cars: donuts, chocolatiers, places where overweight customers hide their consumption.
- Business model that was working: fat people buy food, eat it shamefully in their car alone, then go back to work or teach children.
- Used to be businesses designed specifically for poor people: debt collection, financial restructuring companies like Primerica that exploited their desperation.
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