• ambidexterity@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    How much is “substantially”? And why do you think union wars were the reason for the decrease in deaths? Maybe it’s just the technological progress or something.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Statistics tell me there is a relation between healthcare and life expectation.

      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure

      Note the US is the outlier here: that’s the only country in the world with significant spending and no universal healthcare system (only 10 countries in the world don’t have one). And even with that, medical debt is still the first cause of bankrupcy.

      If you slash medicaid, you go to the left of that chart, but you also go down. That’s a political choice, really.

      Fortunately, enough institutions were torn apart that soon the US will also be the exception for being unable to provide numbers for the years to come.

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 hours ago

      Because I’m not diluting myself. You wanna continue being a dip shit regarding how improved workplace conditions decreased workplace deaths be my guest. I’m gonna actually use my brain, though.

      EDIT: got alittle heated and used some mentally ableist language. I’m trying to break that habit so I’ve edited that language to reflect that.