Inequality Is Fattening

Polly Toynbee in The Guardian:

So what's gone wrong? Most of us wrestle with food, torn between denial and desire, between fridge and gym, eating and regretting. It is very hard and girth grows by the decade. Most people I know live in a Bridget Jones cycle of boom and bust with the weighing scales. But mostly the middle class stays the right side of dangerously obese. In the highest echelons, those superthin lettuce-eaters Tom Wolfe calls the social x-rays know that thinness radiates high status, as surely as bound feet did in old China. "You can't be too rich or too thin," said Dorothy Parker.

But fat means poor and out of control. People who feel they have no control over their own lives give up. What's there to struggle and make sacrifices for? No job, no prospects, no point. A little of what you fancy compensates for life's big disappointments. So drinking and smoking and eating the wrong things become small treats in desolate lives. Being out of control becomes a mindset ever harder to climb out of. No job becomes no status, no hope and, rapidly, unemployable semi-despair, whatever the job market out there.

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