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There’s no functional difference between “you can’t have this” and “this is too expensive for you”. Neither affects my original point in the slightest. “The po

There’s no functional difference between “you can’t have this” and “this is too expensive for you”. Neither affects my original point in the slightest. “The poor do it to themselves” is an argument that you can take back to the Victorian era where it belongs.

SamReidHughes 8y ago
In the terms of drinking, smoking, and obesity, they in fact do. That's the real world you live in. We already do have healthcare programs for the bottom 1%, like Medicaid. A better analysis would be to compare the overall population variance in life span, between different countries or years. This gives a direct measurement of how unequal life outcomes are, instead of being affected by the way the economy sorts people into wealth brackets.