• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Well obviously, once we retire our lives no longer have value.

    The closer retirement age and death are the better it is for the economy; at its most efficient we’d work until the day we die at 60.

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      13 hours ago

      I know what you mean, but the bulk of the actual problem is that working class Americans can’t stop fucking killing themselves with stupid behavior. The leading causes of death are preventable. The thing you mean that you dare not simply come out and say because you value your liberty is living in a fantasy so that you don’t have to do the hard work of fixing reality.

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          11 hours ago

          It’s a lot better than the premise that murdering CEOs is going to improve the life expectancy of the working class. You just breeze by that, and then you stumble on my take?? People are looking for easy answers that don’t require they make any changes whatsoever. They’re begging for the intervention of some kind of savior, when the real answer is, “just stop killing yourself.”

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          11 hours ago

          Education (and learning) affects deaths of heart diseases and cancer. Say, my stupid, stupid dad during covid got ill (not with covid likely) and died from heart attack, because he was afraid to get infected by doctors (yes). Education also affects whether you become “poorer” or “richer”.

          Heart diseases and cancer are affected by bad food habits, which are sometimes affected by executive dysfunction and addictive behavior, which also impede people from becoming “rich” directly.

          And the longer you survive, the likelier you are to have successes yielding financial results.

          So - maybe he doesn’t believe that, but I eagerly do, it just makes sense. Correlation is not causation.

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      11 hours ago

      Isn’t fewer the better choice in formal English because years is a countable plural noun?

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    12 hours ago

    This is a logical trick - the longer you live, the likely you get richer.

    I understand everyone’s bias, but not why such pleasant to find moments are left ignored.

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      11 hours ago

      Not 1% rich, as the article says.

      Years of being unable to afford preventative care, and insurance coverage denial for helpful procedures, mean the average person will die sooner. The lifespan of Americans is much lower, despite higher costs of healthcare, when compared against peer countries.

      I bet there’s more plastic in poorer people as well.