What's the end result of that? People are fatter and less healthy than ever.

It's not clear that banning it outright would be a solution but the relative health of countries that disincentive unhealthy ingredients vs. those that subsidize it like the USA tends to make me think bans are a potential solution.

Edit:

I think we'd probably be better off subsidizing/ giving grants to some number of people to do community gardens instead of make work jobs. They'd get exercise and generate healthy food, at least enough to replace some fraction of their diet. I guess the equivalent of that would be subsidizing healthy IRL social interaction like dances, sports, and board games.

And the alternative to that could be even worse than being exposed to that influence.

Is there any chance (other than switching to english?) of getting a localisation of Android that doesn't continually attempt to use T pronouns with me?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T–V_distinction

This is already happening. We just call them "influencers" or "YouTubers". These are still technically real people, but they're real people playing a sanitized character while appearing/claiming some degree of authenticity. They are actual photographed humans, but often wildly digitally retouched to be more beautiful than any actual person.

And people increasingly are replacing real relationships with parasocial relationships with these complete strangers. It's understandable: like junk food, it satisfies an immediate craving with no real effort on the part of the consumer. But long-term, it is deeply unhealthy.

I bet the author, Boris The Brave, could find a relatable account of future events in the writings of Daniel C. Dennett.