https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy

    • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Capitalism killed soviet socialism precisely so that it could get away with doing this to american workers without the threat of a better example in the USSR where people would be living longer and being taken care of.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      2015 looks like statistical noise.

      Statististical is maybe the wrong term, since I din’t think these are sampling based, but small changes in a short period are probably more due to random fluctuations than genuine environmental changes.

      If you mean the curve leveling off in like the 2008-2017 range, I think that's long term effects of thr 2009 recession.