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> In the US for example, life expectancy has dropped three years running. Largely due to obesity and related diseases. People are dying from overabundance. T
by dpark 8y ago
> In the US for example, life expectancy has dropped three years running.
Largely due to obesity and related diseases. People are dying from overabundance. The percentage of people at "subsistence" levels is quite low.
> More and more people fall to a median income that doesn't even let them have kids and send them to college, and seems to be falling to where they can't even pay for minor emergencies. That's not improvement.
Is this at all true? Paying for your kids' college simply wasn't something most people did even 30 years ago, because most kids didn't go to college.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Largely due to obesity and related diseases No, the decline is due primarily to drug overdoses, and that mainly from the opioid epidemic. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/28/us-life-expectancy-drops-as-opioid-deaths-and-suicide-rates-rise.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/28/us-life-expectancy-drops-as-...