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

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• Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We need Dr. Luigi to help close the gap.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Coward. Do it yourself if you think it’s such a great idea.

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    • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s the issue isn’t it. Most in the U.S. don’t have the same gumption to get out there and get it done. It’s easier to have someone else do all the work. I am certainly not confident enough in myself to join any protests or riots. I’m too afraid of the consequences if or when it all goes wrong.

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• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are remedies to close that gap…

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Keep licking them boots.

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• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  7 years as of right now. It’s trending downward.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  nypost.com/…/lotto-winner-went-for-back-checkup-f…

  tldr. Man couldn’t afford to go to the doctor until he won the lottery.

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• Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That can be corrected pretty quick.

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean, no. Entire industries are founded on retirement money being spent. They want people to save 401ks, no pensions. And then die as soon as they run out of money or start costing the state anything

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But wouldn’t it be better for them if we die and our children cash out their parents’ retirement savings to put it into the economy immediately? Think of how much economic activity is generated when a 30 year old inherits two $500,000 accounta from their dead parents!

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We can adjust those statistics 😏

  Just ask The Adjuster

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• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes but they keep voting to have their lifespans cut.

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not me… ffs, they should speak for themselves

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• Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Luigi Mangione was trying his best to close that gap.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For fuck’s sake please stop robbing this man of his presumption of innocence.

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    • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not on the jury.

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• herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wow. It’s rare to see someone incorrectly use fewer instead of less.

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s not. You can count years, but years are a unit of time and you can’t count time. Same thing with weight or distance or volume or a bunch of other things.

      It’s not a super strict rule anyway. Money is very much countable but it’s “less”.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Good job, Rich.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Surprised it’s only 7 tbh.

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• Beetschnapps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fuck words. If newsmax thinks otherwise this is worthless…

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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  • halykthered@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      both can be true

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Those with investments and other preparations in place to retire comfortably and still make money somehow are only a fraction of the population. Not everyone’s a business owner, not everyone invested in the stock market in time, not everyone has a savings account, not everyone owns their own house. There’s a chasm between the haves and the have-nots.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I was trying to say causality goes both ways between “being rich” and “living longer”.

      Of course there is a chasm. There are also mass murders of towns and villages on the Syrian coast right now, with the EU having reacted swiftly by condemning the victims, and the US having reacted only in words and proceeding to bomb Yemeni houthis with means more than enough to stop those mass murders.

      There are storms, and there are still times, and there are times of abundance and of hunger.

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