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No doubt there's a real underlying problem here. The abuse of comparison doesn't help anything though. I'd guess (but it's a guess) that average american life e
by version_five 4y ago
No doubt there's a real underlying problem here. The abuse of comparison doesn't help anything though. I'd guess (but it's a guess) that average american life expectancy is going down because of some demographics who have it really bad (opioid users eg). That's an acute problem that has no meaning when averaged with everything else. Quoting averages makes it seem like there's some sort of broad malaise as opposed to specific issues for specific groups.
- roundandround 4y agoI think the Oxycontin/Purdue scam is pretty typical of how corruptions that were once targeted by the government to intentionally victimize minorities in ways not large enough to wash away other gains in overall life expectancy have spread to a difficulty in limiting industries victimizing larger more diverse groups in ways that undermine the stats the US was protecting.
- Clubber 4y agoAlso, we have really expensive healthcare, so preventative medicine and recovery type treatment is not done nearly as much as other countries I suspect. You'd think something would change after the massive cracks in the system revealed to everybody by COVID, but it didn't.
- zhivota 4y agoIf you have read the article you know it talks about how comparisons across income percentiles yield reductions in US life expectancy across every income level. It's not an isolated issue.