Ah well. If the absolutely not politised Time magazine has placed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, then the guy you replied to is a dork. No questions asked! ;P
Look at the other people on the list this year. Donald Trump. Cardi B. Hugh Jackman. Satya Nadella. Sean Hannity. Jacinda Ardern. Elon Musk. Oprah Winfrey.
You can argue about the exact selection of people. You can say that Time is 'politicised'. But this is clearly a list of people who are very well known.
It's not embarrassing to admit that you had a blind spot about a particular author, musician or politician. But it is a bit silly to then go on to claim that since you haven't heard about them, they can't be that famous after all.
I live in the EU, which is quite Americanized by any standard, and I'd bet nobody around me would recognize the name of Sean Hannity (or Nikki Haley, another name on the 2016 list). That list just seems hopelessly parochial to me.
I live in the EU too and the only name that anybody would recognise there is Donald Trump because they spend all day on the telly telling us how evil he is. Also Hugh Jackman if you like his movies.
If they talk evil about something I don't like, that's cool and genuine. If they talk good things about something I don't like, now let me be a cynic here
>Poor and less educated people know nothing about nutrition and don't have the money to buy good food.
In societies with traditional agriculture and village culture, they don't have to "know about nutrition". Their traditional recipes and ways of eating are healthier, and cheaper.
That's not an absolute rule, but that's exactly the case with Mediterranean diet for one.
>When you don't have the money you are forced to fill up with cheap calories like bread, rice, pasta, sugar, etc.
Some of which is fine. The healthier people in Japan eat a lot of rice, and bread is mighty fine too, as are noodles etc.
Sugar and highly refined breads are recent inventions. They poor people in Italy pre-70s would hardly have much sugar in their meals except from natural sources (tomatoes etc, not refined). No fast-food and crappy supermarket tv-diner style food either. People cooked religiously.
Also the poor masses in Italy etc were traditionally not destitute (e.g. developing world-like). Just poor. They could still afford basic meals, and had strong family support.
In Sicily, as that is the example given, people are poorer than the European average and significantly poorer than the American average. Yet they have a healthier diet.
The issue of unhealthy diets in the US/Europe is not so much poverty but a culture of junk food and not knowing better.
Being transparent about pricing is working against you. If I want to pay $54 for a book and I know only $0.77 are going to you, I'm simply not going to buy it.
The production costs might be reasonable, but $20+ to Amazon just for existing? Fuck that. I mean I use Amazon when I know their margins are razor thin (for most things they are), but in this case, big nope here.
