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Data scientist Explains Why The US Won’t See A Violent Political Revolution Anytime Soon
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| 4-22-2017
| Sam Harris, Quora
Posted on 04/22/2017 4:36:04 PM PDT by blam
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To: semaj
Another factor that might be overlooked: as a man gets older he has less to lose.At 18, I thought that I had nothing to lose. 18-year-olds think that they are immortal.
50-year-olds know that they are mortal. They have less (remaining) lifetime to lose, but they have more (wife and children) to lose.
Consequently, younguns are more reckless.
Regards,
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posted on
04/23/2017 3:28:21 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek
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The only time in history that young men "had it made" was in the 1960s: Conservative values were still in place, so older men were unable to "take advantage" of the explosion of female Baby Boomers "coming onto the market." Eligible men (say, in their late 20s) were vastly outnumbered by eligible women (between 18 and 30) - and there were suddenly no social constraints against leveraging that advantage....Interesting observation that...
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posted on
04/23/2017 4:02:42 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Carthego delenda est
I agree. Young people of today are still living with their parents even though they are well past their teen years. Those snowflakes have immature brains and have succumbed to communist preaching in the schools. There is significant mass to precipitate wide-spread violence.
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posted on
04/23/2017 6:22:49 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Paladin2
They work with “community organizers”.
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posted on
04/23/2017 6:23:29 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: blam
I can see the MSM headline now...
‘Planned Parenthood Prevents Revolutions’
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posted on
04/23/2017 8:28:31 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: glorgau
"Data Scientist" is apparently in wide spread PC usage. I just heard it mentioned on NPR.
Sounds like a self-assigned promotion though....
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posted on
04/23/2017 9:15:46 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: qam1
Re: “The reason the past life expectancies were so low was because of infant mortality & childhood diseases.”
Agree - and that does impact “average” life expectancy, but I was trying to keep my Comment simple.
Re: “If you made it to your teens back then you pretty much had the same chance to live into your 70s as you do today.”
Sorry, that is not correct.
Before 1800, and before antibiotics and antivirals, the leading causes of death struck every age group:
(1) Infectious diseases
(2) Malnutrition
(3) Hypothermia
(4) Traumatic injuries.
In 1918, the year of the great influenza epidemic, the average age of death in the USA was 36.
Before that, Pneumonia and Tuberculosis wiped out hundreds of millions of previously healthy adults.
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posted on
04/24/2017 3:41:18 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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