Pointing to thermodynamics is the same "bootstraps" mentality you see elsewhere, just applied to food and health instead of money.
Just like telling the poor "just make more money", it might technically be true but it is such an unhelpful and useless thing to say, that it is hard to believe the speaker is trying to help and not just make themselves feel better.
So I don't think it's physics, I think it's some people just enjoy pretending systemic effects - inequality, privilege and just blind luck don't matter.
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Pointing to thermodynamics is the same "bootstraps" mentality you see elsewhere, just applied to food and health instead of money.
Just like telling the poor "just make more money", it might technically be true but it is such an unhelpful and useless thing to say, that it is hard to believe the speaker is trying to help and not just make themselves feel better.
So I don't think it's physics, I think it's some people just enjoy pretending systemic effects - inequality, privilege and just blind luck don't matter.