kottke.orgDec 2
An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) https://kottke.org/25/12/an-astonishing-graph
An Astonishing Graph

For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.

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Show threadJered FloydDec 6
@kottke @cstross The especially horrible thing is that the leaders making decisions (in the US) think we _should_ be going back — a perverse, unscientific belief that this has “made us weak”.
Show threadCharlie StrossDec 6
@jered @kottke Well, low infant mortality *does* mean that women aren't so ground down from popping out babies and burying them all the time that they can compete with the testicular-endowed god-fearing breadwinners for jobs, thereby making civilization implode, or something? So yeah, gotta kill more babies for Jesus.
Show threadJered Floyd
@cstross @kottke I was thinking more a grave misunderstanding of Darwinian "survival of the fittest", as if the "M&M duels" guy from the early days of USENET was serious, a sociopath, and now head of Health and Human Services.
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