In this day and age, people of all races and sex’s, are becoming increasingly overweight. This main problem stems a number of medical and economical concerns as the “obese” continue to suffer greater probability of heart disease, high blood pressure, and reduced work productivity. It is obvious that this matter cannot continue lest the world be strained by easily averted medical disasters. I wholeheartedly believe that society would be better off without them and even better then that if they are put to use. Therefore I propose that anyone that is currently in the obese category, along with those that enter after my proposal take effect, shall be rounded up and put into work camps. When the obese first enter the camps, their weight shall be taken and recorded into official records for future use. After the check in process is complete, the workers will be delegated to a variety of manual labor jobs that would seem “unpleasant” to the average weight individual. The work itself will be beneficial to society. For example, employers will not have to pay reluctant workers by the hour to slack off most of the day but instead be able to train them for more skilled positions of the workforce. These now skilled average weight workers will prove more effective in society and thus contribute to a growing economy.
Also, the manual labor will contribute to the better health of those obese. By getting into better shape, these individuals will reduce their risk of various medical conditions and in turn no longer burden the American and global health care system. Once healthy, they will see an improvement in work ethic and productivity. Unfortunately, since all of the workers were deemed obese they were already at a heightened risk for certain medical factors and since treating these preventable illnesses are the goal, those afflicted with these ailments must be left to die. Fortunately, these lost workers will serve as a hefty meal for the other workers. I project that a 350lb being would yield approx 200lb of meat, the rest being reduced to stock for soup.
Roads and other public interest projects will be completed sooner and this will lead to a higher tax participation rate. With the increase in tax revenue, the government will be able to fund training camps for illegal workers; teaching them English and the ways of our society, they will be better adept to assimilating into our society.
Finally, when the workers enter into the average weight category they will be released back into society and will be put to work in an accepted form of work that is healthy to the nation. Since they know the horrors of being obese, medical and physical, they will be much less likely to overeat; if they do fall back into old habits, then they will be quickly deported back into the obese workforce into the most disturbing and physically exhausting area that exists.
I understand that this idea may come off as “sick” or “evil” to some, but I assume that you are at least able to see how my proposal has the ability to come closer to a utopian society then has ever before been achieved. By restricting only the obese to the menial tasks of society, the lack of motivation due to harder work and equal pay will have been lessened. People will have learned the skilled tasks that allow society to function without excess and after rehabilitation, many of the patients will be eager to support anything that creates uniformity.