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Everyone in the US is benefiting from this. People in the US are so comfortable they don't seem to have a clue what real hardship actually is.
by ars 3y ago
Everyone in the US is benefiting from this.
People in the US are so comfortable they don't seem to have a clue what real hardship actually is.
- JohnFen 3y agoWell, at the very least the ones who die from exposure in the winter because they don't have a place to live, the ones who die because they can't afford medical care, and so on have a clue what real hardship is.
- nsxwolf 3y ago"In the United States: 6,660 people died from hypothermia or exposure to cold from 2006 to 2010, an average of 1,320 deaths a year." [1] It isn't split up along poverty vs. accident lines, but this is not a major cause of death in the US. [1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr076.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr076.pdf
- JohnFen 3y agoThe deaths amongst the homeless are underrepresented in the statistics for obvious reasons. But ignoring that... > this is not a major cause of death in the US. Wait, so people dying due to poverty isn't something that deserves attention just because it isn't common enough?
- ars 3y agoThis discussion is if the United States has an issue with poverty, and the answer is: no it does not. A tiny fraction of people dying from cold is not an indication that the US has a poverty issue. Sure help them, no one is disputing that, but that's also not what's being discussed here.
- mempko 3y agoYes, that's why the life expectancy of the US, the richest empire in history, is ranked 51 out of all countries, just below Cuba and above Albania.