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How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps by Elena Schälike
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“We invented a perpetuum mobile. The perfect business model. First, we sell the calories. Then, we sell the chair. Then, we sell the car. Then, we sell the screen that keeps you in the chair. Then, when the kilograms have successfully arrived, we sell the diet.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“A flawed system reliably produces flawed results. Anyone who wants to correct the output must correct the system.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“We built a world in which gaining weight became easy and then created an enormous industry teaching people how to resist it.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“We create the environment and then blame the human for responding to it.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“A systems analysis must not depend on what the system being examined itself considers acceptable... If a system is flawed, social consensus can even become part of the mechanism that stabilises its flaws.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“Humans discovered how to make money… from making humans fat. And then to make money… from dealing with the consequences.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“For the first time in human history, a reasonably affluent person can survive for days while barely needing to travel further than the distance between bed, toilet, refrigerator and sofa.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“The pig is never blamed. Nobody stands outside a pig enclosure shouting: 'Have you considered taking personal responsibility?”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps
“If millions of people are producing the same undesirable output, it is not enough to treat millions of individuals. We must examine which mechanisms within the system are producing this erroneous output.”
― Elena Schälike, How to Fatten a Pig – and a Human: In Five Easy Steps