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No idea why you are being downvoted...this is true.
by angersock 8y ago
No idea why you are being downvoted...this is true.
- notafraudster 8y agoI didn't downvote and I think the parent comment is worth exploring. But, the article presents evidence the phenomenon is global; that it is visible in non-accident disease burden (although of course some environmental diseases reflect the pattern of labour); and when the article does engage with potential biological causes it cites preliminary non-human animal data and evidence, and then offers fat distribution as an example of sexual dimorphism, not as the sole, primary, or even necessarily a cause of the mortality gap. So my guess is that anyone downvoting was downvoting the parent comment's flip tone and non-engagement with the article's thesis, not dismissing the possibility that labour markets impact lifespans.
- jbob2000 8y agoI read the article and am engaging with it. They completely ignore labour; they've missed the forest for the trees. We spend most of our lives working and our labour is a part of our biology.