Health Stuff that worked

I can't speak to the inflammation side of things, but cutting out grains at breakfast has done wonders for me. I'm much more awake, and I've completely lost my desire for caffeine. Moreover, it puts me under critical mass for bee stings, such that I now notice when something delicious crashes my blood sugar and makes me take an unsatisfying three hour nap. This drastically lowers the amount of willpower required to make the long term good decision, because the payoff moves from "6 weeks, at a minimum, if I keep doing everything right, I might feel slightly better" to "There is a direct correlation between this action and the happiness of me 15 minutes from now"

The resistance stretching is also working well. A walk that would previously have left me limping in nonspecific foot pain didn't hurt at all, and my back pain has moved from "well, something is definitely hurting in that region but it's too painful to investigate" to "that specific spot hurts". The pain spots don't actually follow any musculature or connective tissue, and I suspect that's a necessary step for it to stop hurting, but it is still a huge improvement.

B corporations

Publicly traded corporations are legally obligated to be sociopathic: doing something moral at the cost of profits is a violation of shareholder rights. This isn't as terrible an idea as it sounds. The actual point of the law is to prevent executives or large share holders from ripping off small shareholders by funneling money from the large corporation to their personal holdings (by, e.g., giving to a charity but earmarking the money to buy products produced by a family member). I support that idea. Letting individuals with little money and no connections invest with minimal friction is important to class mobility. But it did have this rather nasty side effect.

Someone finally fixed this with a Benefit Corporation. B Corporations specify their altruistic mission in their articles of incorporation, and are required to report their progress using established third party standards in their annual reports. I'm freaking out a little bit at the ambiguity implied by "established third party standards", but I'm not sure there was a better solution. And there's even a non-profit dedicated to certifying with companies that meet (their vision of) acceptable levels of accountability and performance. We gave people more freedom and private organizations popped up to help people use it wisely. It's a libertarian wet dream.