HN is rapidly becoming reddit. There is where I expect to find specious and empty reasoning propped up entirely by weird anti-modernist rhetoric. This isn't even on topic for the original post.

Who are you, random internet weirdo, to indict seven billion people because of a company making and selling a drug. For a cranky libertarian hermit you sure have a lot to say about how the market is wrong.

When they have a similar solution for helping tamp down on severe alcoholism, I look forward to your equally ludicrous opinion about "people spending too much on alcohol" and "getting intake under control".

You couldn't even be bothered to cite one article that would prove spending more money is correlated with obesity. Luckily for me I have plenty that prove your claim is ridiculous on its face.

Drewnowski, Adam and SE Specter. “Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs.” The American journal of clinical nutrition 79 1 (2004): 6-16 .

Ogden, Cynthia L, M. Carroll, Tala H. I. Fakhouri, Craig M. Hales, Cheryl D. Fryar, Xianfen Li and David S. Freedman. “Prevalence of Obesity Among Youths by Household Income and Education Level of Head of Household — United States 2011–2014.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 67 (2018): 186 - 189.