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The high infant mortality is largely explained by the fact that the US counts premature birth related deaths as part of infant mortality and other countries don
by ALittleLight 7y ago
The high infant mortality is largely explained by the fact that the US counts premature birth related deaths as part of infant mortality and other countries don't.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161013103132.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161013103132.h...
Life expectancy loss is mostly drugs and obesity. Hard to see how philanthropic billionaires are a problem on either front.
- arrosenberg 7y agoDrug abuse and obesity are generally a response to chronic stress. America has a chronic stress epidemic due to our work culture and lack of social safety nets. Philanthropic billionaires are people (or progeny of those) who successfully exploited this system. Ergo, the existence of one is correlated with the other, and they share a common cause.
- ALittleLight 7y agoHas our work culture recently become more stressful or our safety nets diminished?
- arrosenberg 7y agoBoth, but probably more of the latter. Since the 70s the entire economy and society has been built for consumption and price optimization. That has resulted in both higher life stresses (more two income working households, most Americans have no savings, etc.) and encouraged politicians to cut safety nets which might have diminished the negative effects.
- arbitrary_name 7y agoThe Sackler family is directly implicated in the 'drugs' part.