Why is life expectancy higher in the UK than in the US?
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Disclaimer: I have no agenda here, these are both countries whose governments I despise. But considering that the UK is so much poorer than the US, this is noteworthy.
I did notice that this 'journalist' tried to make it about guns, when his own data showed that guns were a far lesser factor than violent deaths in general.
A huge percentage of America's supposed problems completely disappear once you filter to only asians & non-hispanic white.
US white life expectancy is 79, asian 85.7. Blacks bring down the average thanks to their poor health choices. Scottish men only have 76.8 despite NHS.
White people in the United States are also no fatter than whites in many EU countries. Fact. Blacks, and to a lesser extent hispanics, fuck up all our statistics.
I noticed a sleight of hand by this 'journalist', namely that he argued that race does not account for it - and then cited only data from the UK, not the US.
Still, I don't think race is even close to explaining most or all of this. One of the worst states is West Virginia, which has a very small black population.
And it's not as if European countries don't have minorities who are, in fact, a good deal less acculturated than blacks in America are.
You've made this claim before. Can you name those EU countries?
Very small concentration of "bad" whites. More than offset by "good" ones in everywhere else.
Why does the US have so many more "bad" whites than other countries?
To put it in perspective, the US has a life expectancy roughly on par with Poland.
As an Englishman who lived and worked in the US for 4 years, though numerically correct, it's very odd to think of the UK being 'so much poorer than the US', because there is very little appreciable difference in the quality of life of the average man - for that reason, I returned to England, despite being a lawful permanent resident of the US. America offered me nothing - or rather, nothing I actually wanted.
The reason the average American sees so little benefit from the vast wealth of his nation is the same reason the mightiest years of the British Empire were also those of extreme poverty for many Englishmen: Maintaining an empire is fucking expensive.
Add on top of this, the American elites have still not grown out of the 1920's mindset that they have to one-up the European elites on the size of their houses and you see America's riches either burned on the upkeep of GAE, or squandered on bragging to people who stopped caring half a century ago.
Truly born to be cattle, this one. A fine example of it's kind. It'll literally walk itself right back into the barn. No shepherd needed.
No shepherds explains why your country is full of rampaging farm equipment.
That got a laugh out of me, I'll admit. But I infinitely prefer dealing with the costs of liberty to being a literal serf, whereas when confronted by that you decided you'd rather be back under the boot of your lords.
You were afforded the opportunity to be free and chose to be a slave.
I agree with you. But can't blame them for this. I've lived all my life in a pod (apartment) and I'd like a proper home.
Guns are a red herring in mortality rate figures. Most are suicides, which really have nothing to do with guns, since it's just the tool they chose. When you remove those, and lawful shootings, which are a good thing, we're better off than countries that have far stricter gun regulations.
Are you sure? Not trying to make an anti-gun argument, but the percapitanumber of murders in the US is vastly greater than in any other Western country.
Well, not to shift goalposts, but the 2018 non-hispanic white population in America was almost 200 million and they committed 1,476 murders (not all involving firearms).
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
That’s a rate of fewer that one per 100 thousand, and comparable or better than most European countries.
The point being, the US doesn't have a gun problem, we have a demographic problem; where certain ethnic groups are orders of magnitude more violent than white people.