Posted on 10/04/2023 11:39:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Discarded Americans are dying at younger ages while the federal government fills jobs with young and healthy migrants, according to data provided by the New York Times.
“The America of those without college degrees has been scarred by death and staggeringly shorter life spans,” said the October 3 op-ed by Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton.
Their op-ed said: Almost two-thirds of American adults do not have college degrees, and they have become increasingly excluded from good jobs, political power and social esteem. As their lives and livelihoods are threatened, their longevity declines.
In the 1970s, American life expectancy grew by about four months each year. By the 1980s, it was similar to life expectancy in other rich countries. Since then, other countries have continued to progress, with life spans increasing by more than two and a half months a year. But the United States has slowly, gradually and then precipitously fallen behind.
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Fear porn to perpetuate the college ponzi scheme, and to attempt to fend of the well-deserved collapse of at least half of the current system of colleges and universities.
Third world banana republic status getting closer.
I paid cash for the first 2 years of law school and commercial loans for the last year. Painful, but got them all paid off in 3 years.
Yea but there’s the small issue you need to sterilize yourself to get into it.
um... did you go to college?
I went to college very late in life, I was 30 before I finished.
My life changed so dramatically it is hard to describe. So many everyday items.
and amazingly we have well educated folks pointing to the US infant mortality rate-comparing it to places like Philippines and concluding it’s problem.
all the while we give life to the most difficult pregnancies on earth-same in Philippines are still born and don’t count.
Likewise eradicating child illness doubled our lifespans-not modern healthcare.
It’s a horror show out there.
Obesity and fentanyl is my guess
Better jobs, better chance at getting married, having kids, and owning a house.
Not all do, but many without a degree fall into the addiction trap, and can’t find work
Does the Left see this as a problem now? I thought they wanted me to die.
If you do not see that higher education nowadays is primarily a scam, then your college degree didn’t help as much as you thought. It takes a considerable amount of naïveté and/or lack of awareness of current culture to not see it for what it has become. Yes, I did go to college but did not get degreed. I recently retired from a very successful business that I opened over 30 years ago.
Americans are dying at younger ages the democrat plague has much bigger rats now and more of them.
WHO THE F*** SAID I DIDN’T SEE IT?
You talk just like a liberal. In non-sequiturs. “You said A so that must mean you think B”.
I have seen before an after college life. I can go back to the place I used to work and STILL see them same people there pushing the same two buttons all day and spending all there time discussing who is f***ing who and what this or that person said behind their back... It’s terrible.
I went to a GOOD college and actually learned both advanced physics AND computer systems engineering and I spend all day with intelligent people talking about great ideas and how to do new and creating things. It’s an amazing difference.
But you have to go to an actual college - not an indoctrination center.
We can spot those newbies right away. They think they know everything and refuse to work without a trophy and whose most intelligent thought is “ok boomer”
College makes a HUGE difference, if you actually learn.
Trade schools ALSO make a huge difference, because they are rarely indoctrination centers.
Your original comment about college not being worth it was remarkably over-generalizing in scope, with little substance.
Maybe A causes B. And sometimes maybe it's B causing A. And more likely much of the time, it's C that causes A and B separately, and they don't even mention C.
Applied to this example let me speculate: Intelligent people are more likely to plan on and go to college than people who recognize they are intellectually limited. That time in college may be worthless, but so long as it doesn't destroy their fundamental intelligence, they are still going to be more intelligent than less intelligent people who didn't go to college.
So the less intelligent people wind up in dead-end jobs, and start boozing, or doing drugs, to cope as they deal with a dull life, broken relationships, and so on. And that leads them to an early grave, particularly as government policies sap the dynamism and opportunity out of American culture. That's what I think I see happening. It's not that college somehow extends life significantly, but those who attend have better job opportunities either because of their native intelligence or the grifting network that a degree provides, that keeps them out of the tailspin of despair facing much of the population.
Most of the deaths are attributable to drugs, alcoholism, obesity, and guns.
Other response. A soda tax. We should charge $1.00 per 12 Oz. Americans drink too much soda as it is. Our population is aging. So we should be drinking a lot of less soda.
Cancer has got to be up there in the top five.
Not to disparage intelligence, but I think a strong family background is the backbone of a successful life and career. ( Your mileage may vary . )
I think perhaps only 25-30 percent of young people have the capacity that would enable them to truly benefit from higher education. The rest would be better off going to a technical school or entering some kind of apprenticeship.
Yeah, I think so, but there is always the GMO argument that many cancers are caused by environment/food additives. I am no expert on this and can’t comment.
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