Posted on 12/15/2010 1:31:09 PM PST by RJR_fan
This 4-minute video dramatically depicts the global trends in health and wealth, from poor and sick to well and rich.
I thought you all might find this interesting. Ideas have consequences — and the best is yet to come.
THAT VIDEO IS 100% BS.
Our very own cemetary’s are full of folks from the 1700’s and 1800’s that lived to 80 degrees, there is no truth to these life expectancy claims. In 1800 life expectancy world wide was in the 40’s? Hardly, this is a FLAT OUT LIE.
Sorry, video made me angry, such a lie, that’s 80 years I meant to say, sheeze what a stupid video
I found it fascinating,and fun to watch.
It also scared the hell out of me.
That is a great illustration of free enterprise countries rising and totalitarian countries staying poor. Even today those countries that didn’t adopt free enterprise and encourage individual ownership and reward are poor starving etc.
It’s better to have honest fiction than lies that masquerade as fact IMO.
It is true that many folks living in the 1800s lived to advanced ages. However, many children did not live to adulthood and many babies died in infancy. If one lived to adulthood, the odds of living a long life increased substantially. Thus, life expectancies, as a whole, were depressed until infant mortality was addressed and infectious diseases that kill children were controlled.
To reply to your post, however, "life expectancy" is an average that can be sucked down by high infant and childhood mortality rates. So, it's not a flat-out lie, it's a statistic. You may want to check out the book How to Lie with Statistics.
Interesting, but unfortunately they did not include the numbers of those individuals murdered before birth. Now that would cause on impact on life expectancy and will absolutely impact population growth. Numbers. HA!
It took a millennium of preaching against the sin of covetousness before the industrial revolution was possible. Marxism and tribalism justify envy and theft. In Africa, a farmer with a good crop will sneak into his fields at night and ruin much of it. Too much success, and your neighbors will lynch you for being a witch. After all, Party A can only prosper at the expense of Party B, right?
They are equally full of children who died in infancy or within the first year. Go check an old graveyard sometime - the number of "Baby Jones," and "Infant Smiths" might surprise you.
Who was wealthy enough to have a permanent tombstone 200 years ago? The same people wealthy enough to afford a good diet and medical care. Statistics can be manipulated to show what you want.
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