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New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 5 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We need Dr. Luigi to help close the gap.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are remedies to close that gap...

[+] jerkface@lemmy.ca -23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months 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.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Keep licking them boots.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago

https://nypost.com/2018/02/01/lotto-winner-went-for-back-checkup-found-out-he-had-deadly-cancer/

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

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

That can be corrected pretty quick.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes but they keep voting to have their lifespans cut.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Not me.... ffs, they should speak for themselves

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

Good job, Rich.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Luigi Mangione was trying his best to close that gap.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I'm not on the jury.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Surprised it's only 7 tbh.

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fuck words. If newsmax thinks otherwise this is worthless…

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's not. You can count years, but years are a unit of time and you can't count time. Same thing with kilos or meters or liters or a bunch of other things.

It's not a super strict rule that you can apply blindly anyway. Money is very much countable but it's "less".

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

it's not

it is

years are a unit of time and you can't count time

wtf lmfao

[+] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

thats not how it works. with the super rich the shorter your parents life the sooner you become rich.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

both can be true

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 5 months ago

sorta but someone who works for a living who can no longer work do to age is not going to get richer by living longer.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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, invested in the stock market in time, has a savings account, got an inheritance, owns their own house, or lives debt free, etc. There's a chasm between the haves and the have-nots that is only getting wider and accelerating in the USA.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I see. I wasn't commenting anything else, though. 😅