How We Spend Trillions of Dollars To Feed Our Self-Sabotage

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By Mike Bundrant for NaturalNews.com If there is anything in life that you can count on, it’s people doing harm to themselves. In fact, it seems the world economy might just collapse if it weren’t for consumers acting outside of their own best interests. Businesses around the globe invest in your potential for self-sabotage routinely and to the tune of trillions of dollars. Why? There is only one reason: It’s a secure investment. If it weren’t such a safe bet, the world’s business landscape would look

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By Mike Bundrant for NaturalNews.com

If there is anything in life that you can count on, it’s people doing harm to themselves. In fact, it seems the world economy might just collapse if it weren’t for consumers acting outside of their own best interests.

Businesses around the globe invest in your potential for self-sabotage routinely and to the tune of trillions of dollars. Why? There is only one reason: It’s a secure investment.

If it weren’t such a safe bet, the world’s business landscape would look very different indeed.

Here are some examples of how businesses bank on self-sabotage:

1. Fitness centers oversell memberships because they know most of their clients will stop coming to the gym very soon. In fact, one gym manager once told me, “If all of our members showed up consistently, we’d have to close our doors because we could never accommodate everyone. We actually count on people not showing up.”

You buy a gym membership and your fitness center will encourage you to get in shape, but still counts on your potential to sabotage your goals by staying home.

Annual revenue generated by fitness centers in 2012: 21.8 Billion (IHRSA)

2. Donut shops, ice cream parlors, liquor stores, tobacco shops and fast food restaurants, on the other hand, invest in your potential to ruin your health by frequenting their establishments regularly. If you didn’t sabotage your health at all, their business might decline 90{533314f2540bdd33bbc04377fd32ff805adcd56cc20929d47e9b088aa1bb02ce}.

Annual revenue of fast food industry in the United States: 110 Billion (StatisticBrain)
For every $100 the average American spends, $1 goes to alcohol to the tune of $153 Billion annually (Time Mag)
Sugar industry annual revenue: 20 Billion (SugarAlliance)

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