JPApr 4, 2025
Ars Technica
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
Some wealthy Europeans have death rates 35 percent lower than the richest Americans.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/wealthy-americans-have-death-rates-on-par-with-poor-europeans/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans

Some wealthy Europeans have death rates 35 percent lower than the richest Americans.

Ars Technica
Apr 3, 2025 at 10:18pmArsBot 🤖
Show threadGregApr 3, 2025
@arstechnica
If only Mump & Trusk and their cohort would follow the trend, we'd all be saved a lot of grief.
Show threadbobocubedApr 3, 2025

@arstechnica

And, yet, people like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump still draw breath.

Show threadTim ZeeApr 3, 2025
@arstechnica Does "wealthy Americans" include broligarchs?
Show threadPēteris KrišjānisApr 3, 2025
@arstechnica rich dumb is rich dumb
Show threadAl & Val's Modern HomesteadingApr 3, 2025
@arstechnica "Murikuh! Hell Yeah!
Show threaddilawarApr 3, 2025
@arstechnica I see some potential for tariffs here!
Show threadnoplasticshowerApr 4, 2025
@arstechnica also, McDonald's is good for you!
Show threadJeffandthekidApr 4, 2025
@arstechnica How the world will be saved?
Show threadJames FairbairnApr 4, 2025
@arstechnica @jnl it’s a mystery
Show threadMeghadeep Roy Chowdhury   Apr 4, 2025
@arstechnica land of the free actually means they’re free to die young, just ask their school children.
Show threadAll Your Money Now KidApr 4, 2025

@arstechnica I'm proud to be an American
Where my food has red forty
And I will work all of my waking hours
Until I die at sixty-three

And I'll proudly drive up
In front of you to get some Chik-Fil-A
'Cause there ain't no way I'm gonna stand
God bless the USA

Show threadFreevoltApr 4, 2025
@arstechnica The upside is that the people who messed up the whatever system are suffering just as much, probably not what they intended, which is why I call them "evil but pathetically stupid."
Show threadWorikApr 4, 2025
@arstechnica death rates for humans are 100%
Show threadPeter Skov Larsen ★Apr 5, 2025

@arstechnica

This is not just the fault of the current (or the past 3 or 4) administration(s). Things like this build up over long periods of time.

The article suggests diet, stress, and systemic factors as reasons for the problem, which seems a fair guess to me.

There's no quick fix - it is a very long haul to turn this ship - generations even. And systemic change is uncomfortable and painful.

The hardest part of the system to change is the one inside your head. But that's where it starts.