Comment on New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich

MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I know what you mean, but the actual problem is that americans can’t stop fucking killing themselves with stupid behaviur.

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  • half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can’t truly believe rich people are just inherently better at not dying of heart disease or cancer.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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??

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      • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hey. I saw you throating the boots of the exploitative owning class in a bunch of your comments. Do you have any good takes about anything? Like, even on a totally different topic?

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      • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        We pay twice what other countries do for healthcare, for much worse results. The insurance plague is definitely party of the problem.

        When insurance companies are auto denying claims in hope you give up and never challenge that bullshit contact breach, it’s definitely a massive part of the problem.

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  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Keep licking them boots.

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