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Then how you explain the fact that USA has one of the lowest life expectancy among the developed world? I think that what the author tries to explain is that,
by 6t6t6 12y ago
Then how you explain the fact that USA has one of the lowest life expectancy among the developed world?
I think that what the author tries to explain is that, in some places, societies have gone too far in the seek of productiveness and, ironically, people there is less happy and healthy.
I guess finding the good balance is more important than trying to be the number one.
- quonn 12y agoWhy is this downvoted? Given that the US is as economically powerful as it is, why _is_ life expectancy lower [0], compared to other _developed_ nations? Check out Canada, Australia, Japan and West-Europe on the map. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Life_Expectancy_2011_CIA_World_Factbook.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Life_Exp...
- runj__ 12y agoThe US is a big country, it's incredibly diverse. Comparing the US as a whole to other countries is not really fair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_exp... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_... But we can of course all pick our own statistics to fit our standpoint. But it's important to keep in mind that the US can be a bit of an edge case.