[ChicagoConservative27]

WTH does going to college or not have to do with anything?

[redgolum]

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

[LucienCA13]

Does the Left see this as a problem now? I thought they wanted me to die.

[Vaduz]

Americans are dying at younger ages the democrat plague has much bigger rats now and more of them.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Regarding the question of college education and life expectancy, let me offer a broad complaint that applies to INNUMERABLE articles: They make a causal assumption (that "A" causes "B") without actually providing any evidence. I see this all over the place, every day, in pretty much every publication.

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.