What if everyone were thin? As thin as people tended to be before the 1970s? It sounds ridiculous, of course – today 26% of the UK population is obese and another 38% are overweight; 40% of the US population is obese. But it isn’t ridiculous. Hungersuppressing weight-loss drugs look as if they might soon transform our world: it seems that those taking the drug Wegovy lose on average around 15% of their body weight in the first year.
Morgan Stanley estimates that around 24 million people (7% of the US population) will be taking these drugs in
