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Are comfy couches to blame for Americans stagnancy and reduced physical exercise today?
I think the problem is with the advent of air conditioning.
I would blame the invention of motorized transport and many labor saving devices (washing machines, vacuum cleaners, electric blenders/mixers). In the 1700’s, one always walked to work. Only the “1%” would have carriages (and they were often fat – in fact, in that period being fat was a sign of affluence and being overweight was considered “good” when looking for shiduch, for both genders and in all cultures).
Compared with some earlier era or merely different living arrangements, the list of labor-saving inventions and services most of us city folk depend upon is remarkable. Couches need not fear their indictment!
Consider how few people raise/capture, slaughter and butcher animals or farm and process grain or produce for personal consumption. Personally speaking, I do all my hunting, fishing and harvesting at the local supermarket or fast-food joint.
I also don’t chop wood for cooking or heat, weave fabrics or scrub my laundry at the river edge as most likely did my ancestors.
I even have devices that manage labor-saving devices (think auto bill-pay)! I’ve practically put my existence on automatic pilot. Hypothetically speaking, If not for friends and family, how long might my disappearance go unnoticed?
It’s because you have to pay to go to the gym.
LB: To paraphrase Koheles: Posters come and posters go, but the Coffee-Room just keeps on truckin’ 🙂
its not couches,its chips fault
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