A new paper:
"Neoliberalism has become the dominant ideology in many parts of the world. Yet there is little empirical research on its psychological impact. On the basis of a social identity approach to health, we hypothesize that, by increasing competition and by reducing people’s sense of connection to others, neoliberalism can increase loneliness and compromise our well-being. Study 1 (N = 246) shows that the more neoliberal people perceive society to be, the worse their well-being, and that this relationship is mediated via loneliness. In two experiments, we showed that exposure to neoliberal ideology increases loneliness (Study 2, N = 204) and, through this, decreases well-being (Study 3, N = 173). In Study 4 (N = 303), we found that exposure to neoliberal ideology increased loneliness and decreased well-being by reducing people’s sense of connection to others and by increasing perceptions of being in competition with others. In Study 4, the effect of neoliberalism on well-being was evident for liberals only. We discuss the potential impact of neoliberalism on different social groups in society."

Competition is hailed by neoliberalism as desirable it seems to me, for the reasons given above. For example, pitting people against one another for jobs is done to lower wages. Thats economics 101. Does it have constructive effects? No, but it does often fuel compulsive activities such as addictions. Stress causes peoples bodies to store abdominal fat. Evolution does that because existential fat often is followed by food supply stress so those extra pounds in the pst helped people survive in order so they could procreate, reinforcing the storing of fat by evolution. Does that still hold true?

Well mostly not, few of us are literally starving these days, and that is what the storing of fat is done by our bodies to prevent.

But now its still happening.

One thing we could do.

They really should outlaw the use of high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener because its health effects are really devastating to peoples health. Its like crack, almost. An incredibly sweet sweetener, so sweet it causes a lot of damage to health.

Here is the paper: Neoliberalism can reduce well-being by promoting a sense of social disconnection, competition, and loneliness