Thought: Cheap ( unhealthy) food isn’t to “feed the masses”. It’s there to keep them going a tiny bit more at the expense of health for employer’s benefit.

Like the moment sugar became cheap in industrial revolution britain, that’s exactly what the oligarchs saw it as a quick source to feed their grunts. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/07/396664685/tea-tuesdays-how-tea-sugar-reshaped-the-british-empire