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You’ll have better healthcare, hygiene, and pretty much better everything. Status is for the birds. Who gives a shit.
by johnwheeler 4y ago
You’ll have better healthcare, hygiene, and pretty much better everything. Status is for the birds. Who gives a shit.
- abraxas 4y agoI think in due course you'll get to see how impotent a lot of modern medicine is when faced with certain maladies especially those that come with advanced age, e.g. cancers, strokes etc. We're far better at telling you what you're going to die of vs 100 years ago but not really all that much better at keeping you alive.
- sokoloff 4y agoThe overall statistics argue that we are meaningfully better: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/LExpMort.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/LExpMort.pdf
- abraxas 4y agoYeah, I won't argue that we made no progress. But most of the amazing life expectancy progress came from combatting infant mortality. As you can see from your own sources, the life expectancy of a senior adult only increased by a handful of years between the early 20th century and now. If anything I consider the progress in medicine to be lagging compared to progress made in most other areas like automation, transporation, communication etc.
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