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It's a little weird that the author decided to lead with fruits and vegetables, and leave things like, "fewer people die of heart disease and cancer" a long way
by aetherson 4y ago
It's a little weird that the author decided to lead with fruits and vegetables, and leave things like, "fewer people die of heart disease and cancer" a long way down.
That said, for those scanning the comments, I suggest you RTFA, which is a pretty good overview for the length that it has to play with. The people in the comments who are Really Upset about it aren't doing a very good job of summarizing it.
- sha256sum 4y agoLooking through the comments, Really Upset sounds like an exaggeration. It's hard to conclude a "better life" when the stress of paying outrageous healthcare, childcare, housing, education costs outweigh things like "increased food consumption", which is what I'm seeing in the comments. Interesting charts nonetheless.
- jjoonathan 4y agoThe article chooses to spend its attention in a very non-neutral manner. This is a common PR tactic and has a name: > Shit Sandwich - Urban Dictionary > A way of giving crappy news to someone. The news is dressed up as, first a positive statement then the bad news, and then a positive statement It's not only fair to criticize the article for its thesis and aggressive framing, it's absurd to defend a shit sandwich on the basis that it's only 1/3 shit.
- bdowling 4y agoThe other side of increased life expectancy is that the average person will work longer before he can afford to retire.