• space_comrade [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah most of the states with a low score have (or had at some point in the near past) a functioning social safety net which likely includes elderly care, or people are just generally rich enough to afford proper care in their old days.

    The ones with the high score overwhelmingly are too poor to have a functional social safety net, especially for the elderly, so old people don't really have many people to rely on other than their children.