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Try comparing life expectancy instead, it's a better metric for how well the population is actually doing. Those two US states have comparatively high inequalit
by Herring 10mo ago
Try comparing life expectancy instead, it's a better metric for how well the population is actually doing. Those two US states have comparatively high inequality and lower life expectancy, suggesting they're burning human capital to fuel GDP and generate billionaires.
- walthamstow 10mo agoI haven't read about it much since the height of the Purdue/Oxycontin scandal but the so-called 'deaths of despair' - suicide, overdose and alcoholic liver disease - are also relatively high in the USA.
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