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Life expectancy of those in the bottom has gotten quite close to those at the top. Horowitz may have 100000x the amount of money, but he won't live even 2x as l

Life expectancy of those in the bottom has gotten quite close to those at the top. Horowitz may have 100000x the amount of money, but he won't live even 2x as long as your average American (or global citizen). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy Thankfully educational attainment is also way up https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-world-population https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-w... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-having-attained-at-least-basic-education https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-having-attaine...

mvncleaninst 3y ago
"The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of [American] individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women." [0] [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/
- fanf2 3y ago
  And the gap is increasing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/figure/F3/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/figure/...
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