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It was odd that morbidity was always tied to health or socioeconomic issues in this article. It sounded like rich people don’t have too worry about alcohol, wh
by sghiassy 2y ago
It was odd that morbidity was always tied to health or socioeconomic issues in this article. It sounded like rich people don’t have too worry about alcohol, which would be bizarre.
Can someone knowledgeable in this area perhaps expand?
- dagw 2y agoMy take away is that being rich is really good for you health, enough to offset any negative effects alcohol might have.
- benmmurphy 2y agothere are a whole bunch of 'good traits' and 'bad traits' that are clustered together and its difficult to properly understand the causal relationships between them.
- michaelteter 2y agoI’m not knowledgeable in this area, but I imagine that living with stress is a major factor in how strongly other negatives end up affecting you. People who struggle financially are under constant stress.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoSelf made rich people are also notoriously overworked and under constant stress. It’s like, an artificial, unnecessary, self-induced constant stress. But I don’t think the human body can really tell the difference.
- layer8 2y agoTFA is about people in their sixties, which if they are wealthy (self-made or not) are unlikely to still be spending their time overworked, and are likely significantly less stressed than people who are poor at that age. That being said, younger poor people also tend to overwork to make ends meet.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoPresumably the effect of stress is cumulative across the lifespan…