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I'm glad we can depend on the modern medical-industrial complex to provide us with lifelong treatments that rescue us from the problems caused by....modernity.
by VoodooJuJu 3y ago
I'm glad we can depend on the modern medical-industrial complex to provide us with lifelong treatments that rescue us from the problems caused by....modernity.
Going forward, let's take the via negativa. Rather than add more dependencies, which come with complexity and misaligned incentives, let's see what we can remove.
- api 3y agohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA64y1dXoAAnHzW.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA64y1dXoAAnHzW.png Modernity has unambiguously created a net increase in health. The key here is net increase, which can happen even if some of what modernity brought was negative. Over time we gradually figure out what the negatives are and either remove or correct them.
- VoodooJuJu 3y agoThese life expectancy stats are deceptive because they factor in infant mortality. In the days of yore, if one survived to the age of five, one's life expectancy wasn't much lower than it is today [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/