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> As it stands, there's no actual concerted "save the children" bandwagon that we're being invited to hop on to. Maybe one should be created, with a prioritize
by epicureanideal 4y ago
> As it stands, there's no actual concerted "save the children" bandwagon that we're being invited to hop on to.
Maybe one should be created, with a prioritized list of issues, and loudly inform people that if issues at the bottom are being prioritized the proponents may have other motives than the ones they claim.
- eastbound 4y agoImpossible. If you rank avoidable deaths by quantity, men arrive in all the top 10 categories, so I’m pretty sure no-one would want to make this list anyway.
- hanselot 4y agoDon't say that out loud. Clearly nobody is suggesting that on average men flock towards more dangerous higher paying professions which until recently also meant higher wages. Wouldn't want people to make the connection between risk and reward as a factor in economics.
- hot_gril 4y agoYeah, but I don't know what this has to do with children.
- andrepd 4y agoYes, CEO is a high-risk profession (you can really hurt your back golfing all day), but coal miner is not. Plus what does this have to do with mortality in children again?
- redeeman 4y agono, you hurt your general well being by working very late, too little sleep, being stressed etc.
- eastbound 4y agoThey complain about CEOs but they are like 0.1% of the population. Men also flock in the bottom jobs. They don’t even see 90% of the men. But yes, the transition between CEO and homeless is surprisingly sudden. It’s indeed a risky job.
- andrepd 4y agoCan't understand if this is satire.
- andrepd 4y agoYep, that's why CEOs work less hours than the average American worker... Come on man, dont buy into the propaganda.
- hot_gril 4y agoIf there were a political bandwagon around reducing child deaths, I'd probably still suspect ulterior motives. Also, if it were based on just death counts, I view murder differently from accidents. It's like when people try to compare lung cancer and 9/11.
- ultrarunner 4y agoAgreed on all counts. Even discussion of the statistics on firearms-related mortality tends to sidestep the proportion of suicides. People seem forever to be more interested in pushing their own positions than the hard work of solving the problems, even just one person at time.