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I know your first comment is mainly in jest, but... https://www.seniorliving.org/history/1900-2000-changes-life-expectancy-united-states/ https://www.seniorlivi
by srl 6y ago
I know your first comment is mainly in jest, but... https://www.seniorliving.org/history/1900-2000-changes-life-expectancy-united-states/ https://www.seniorliving.org/history/1900-2000-changes-life-...
For white folk in the US, even the life expectancy at birth (arguably an inflated metric) hasn't increased by 34 years since 1900. For all people in the US (basically everywhere else, too, I think), that ~30-40 years is dominated by infant/youth mortality getting driven hard towards 0.