Can Money Buy You a Longer Life? (msn.com) 97
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
The rich get richer — and older. People with high salaries and net worth tend to live longer lives, research shows. Once Americans make it to their late 50s, the wealthiest 10% live to a median age of around 86 years, roughly 14 years longer than the least wealthy 10%, according to a study published earlier this year in JAMA Internal Medicine. People with more money can afford healthier food, more healthcare and homes in safer, less-polluted neighborhoods, says Kathryn Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and a medical director at the Boston Public Health Commission.
Though you can't add more months or years to your online shopping cart yet, health and aging researchers say there are ways to spend money to improve your chances of living longer. They suggest favoring purchases that help you track your health, stay active and reduce stress. "We know the things that help us age better, and everyone's always disappointed when you tell them," says Andrew Scott, director of economics at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, England. "Eat less and eat better, sleep more, exercise more and spend time with friends...." But certain gadgets and luxuries can be worth the cost, some researchers say. Devices such as the Apple Watch and Oura Ring can instill healthy habits and catch worrying patterns that might emerge between annual checkups, says Joe Coughlin, the director of the MIT AgeLab... Coughlin says he once went to the emergency room because his Apple Watch detected a spike in his heart rate that he hadn't noticed himself.
"For the superwealthy, suddenly living longer and living better has become the new prestige," Coughlin says. Higher incomes correlate with longer lives, but there are diminishing returns. Each successive jump in pay is linked to smaller boosts in longevity, a 2016 study from the research group Opportunity Insights found... A key to the relationship between income and longevity is that money doesn't just buy stuff that helps you live longer. It also buys time and reduces stress. "If you've got a nice place to live and you don't have to worry about food on the table, you have the mental head space and resources to prioritize your health," says Steven Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine... Moreover, many lower-income jobs are more physically taxing and more prone to workplace accidents and exposure to harmful substances.
The article also includes examples of spending that promotes health, including things like home gym equipment and even swing-dancing lessons.
But it also adds that "plenty of things that are good for you don't come with a bill, such as going on a walk or minimizing screen time before bedtime."
Though you can't add more months or years to your online shopping cart yet, health and aging researchers say there are ways to spend money to improve your chances of living longer. They suggest favoring purchases that help you track your health, stay active and reduce stress. "We know the things that help us age better, and everyone's always disappointed when you tell them," says Andrew Scott, director of economics at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, England. "Eat less and eat better, sleep more, exercise more and spend time with friends...." But certain gadgets and luxuries can be worth the cost, some researchers say. Devices such as the Apple Watch and Oura Ring can instill healthy habits and catch worrying patterns that might emerge between annual checkups, says Joe Coughlin, the director of the MIT AgeLab... Coughlin says he once went to the emergency room because his Apple Watch detected a spike in his heart rate that he hadn't noticed himself.
"For the superwealthy, suddenly living longer and living better has become the new prestige," Coughlin says. Higher incomes correlate with longer lives, but there are diminishing returns. Each successive jump in pay is linked to smaller boosts in longevity, a 2016 study from the research group Opportunity Insights found... A key to the relationship between income and longevity is that money doesn't just buy stuff that helps you live longer. It also buys time and reduces stress. "If you've got a nice place to live and you don't have to worry about food on the table, you have the mental head space and resources to prioritize your health," says Steven Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine... Moreover, many lower-income jobs are more physically taxing and more prone to workplace accidents and exposure to harmful substances.
The article also includes examples of spending that promotes health, including things like home gym equipment and even swing-dancing lessons.
But it also adds that "plenty of things that are good for you don't come with a bill, such as going on a walk or minimizing screen time before bedtime."
America vs the rest of the world? (Score:5, Insightful)
Makes sense in America as healthcare is expensive and the poor might skip routine checkups or expensive procedures that might extend their lives. I'd like to know what the results would be in countries with better healthcare.
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let me know when I can walk into an ER and get chemotherapy
Forget chemo, even something as simple as a Dupuytren's Contracture is difficult thing for a poor person to get fixed in the US as it's a surgical procedure... It's a "lifestyle affecting" condition, not threatening so they just live with one or more of their fingers not working properly. Here in the UK, lifestyle affecting is something we treat on the NHS, sure it's not instant but I didn't need to worry either, had to wait about 4 months for the procedure but it was fixed.
Lazy Journalism (Score:2)
Do we need a lazy journalism awards program here?
Re:America vs the rest of the world? (Score:5, Interesting)
You sure about that? Correlation is not cause. The cost of healthcare in the US is crazy, but the causes of lower life expectancy include:
smoking (historical), obesity, homicides (guns), opioid overdoses, suicides (guns), road accidents, and infant deaths.
Homicide and infant deaths correlate to poverty, but more so to race.
Also, while wealth can increase health, it works more dramatically the other way: poor health leads to low income. And in the US, to depletion of savings and even bankruptcy for medical bills.,
Re:America vs the rest of the world? (Score:5, Interesting)
While you might not be aware of the following: a long time ago in the late 80's early 90's, I recall in a congressional hearing, that a big pharm stated ...
This is a paraphrase... and it's stuck with me ever since.
" USA pays for the entire worlds R&D, the rest of the world does not pay the USA insurance market rates "
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Medical research only happens in the US? That's an interesting perspective.
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Re:America vs the rest of the world? (Score:5, Interesting)
Just recently, an EU company solved the longstanding American obesity crisis.
As a not-fat person, I like how the solution to the "longstanding American obesity crisis" is prescription drugs, instead of just eating appropriately for your physical activity level. I know there are people with actual medical issues that cause weight gain, but that's not the obesity crisis you're referring to.
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Extreme and documented side effect of ozempic:
Stomach paralysis - which can lead to severe nausea, constipation, vomiting, and sudden or strong feelings of fullness.
Gallbladder issues.
Gallstones.
Pancreatitis.
Thyroid cancer.
Vision loss.
Kidney disease - or other related kidney problems.
Thoughts of suicide.
No thanks, I am fat, and I am walking and getting healthier the correct way.
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The issue is too many people (in the US) focus on quantity instead of quality. They want to spend less on more food instead. If they focused on buying and eating better foods they might have be in better health. Yes I know better food typically costs more but most I know aren't willing to even try. When Whole Foods opened up in my town, coworkers all complained how expensive it was .. even calling it "Whole Paycheck". I told them it was a good thing because shopping there meant you can't afford to be f
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And that's where having more money helps a lot with health. You don't have to buy the cheapest foods anymore. You also have more education to know what's better food. If your parents had more money it means you were raised with better food as well and got a better health start.
Also the lack of even mild physical activity contributes loads to the problem. We don't walk to work anymore, rich or poor, the sedentary desk job is much more common, so now we need to artificially create time and means to exercis
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Since you've never experianced a hunger drive that exceeds your physical needs, perhaps a surrogate. Try restricting your breathing to maintain a safe but low O2 sat, say 92%. Try it for a day or two, no slip-ups.
Now imagine doing that for the rest of your life.
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it's not negotiations, it's the actual outright threat of infringement of patent.
so that's why some Pharm's are now creating solution that will only be available to be administered in there labs in the USA.
it stems from India and Brazil. They have proven that they will break the patents and renege on the terms.
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Example. [youtube.com]
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Yes, this is very well know about the kick backs and the multi-level mark ups.
I was talking about outright theft of IP
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It's less "savvy negotiation" and more "market access".
In the US, pharmacies buy drugs direct from drug companies. Many pharmacies often have their own "preferr
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In Europe governments are not involved in negotiation prices of drugs.
If pharmacy companies overdraw the lines: there is a new law.
No negotiation what so ever.
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nice reply !!!
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No, it happens world wide.
back then, a larger percentage of discoveries were based from US companies.
the tax payers of the USA paid the highest for that med.
while other countries get it for cheap.
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USA pays for the entire worlds R&D, the rest of the world does not pay the USA insurance market rates
If market cap is an indicator they pay for about half.
https://www.visualcapitalist.c... [visualcapitalist.com]
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And that is why the "Pfitzer" vaccine was invented and manufactured in Germany.
By two Turkish, Kurdish immigrants.
Stupid idiots on the interner.
Gods own country is a third world county, by the literal meaning of third world. Except for Musk, there are no inventions at all in the US, oh, I forgot: some unknown fusion power companies.
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and to this day you are still an ass...
it was a quote from the 80's and 90's
and you point out only one drug...
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Ass in regard to what?
That I live in countries where health care is a service, often cost free for the patient, while you get your HealthIndustrialComplex not sorted out?
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since 1999
you sill have not developed
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There is plenty of other work done all over the world.
Does not really matter who invents stuff, obviously it is not Musk himself, but his teams.
USA, and to a lesser degree Europe - but still to much - are outinovated by China and other Asian countries.
Then they start crying and put up tariffs and wonder why that does not work.
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.....but the causes of lower life expectancy include:
smoking (historical), obesity, homicides (guns), opioid overdoses, suicides (guns), road accidents, and infant deaths.
Guns don't even factor into the top 10 causes of death. All gun deaths account for less than 2% of total deaths, with suicide being a significant majority of those, accounting for 55.3% of gun-related deaths.
As of 2023, heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injury were the top 3 causes of death. COVID-19 was the 10th leading cause of death. Yeah, you're still more likely (statistically speaking) to die of COVID than a gun. I'm not sure where you pulled "infant deaths" from. Infant mortality is 5.6
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One of the unintended consequences of decades of medical research is we now have many, many, many more things to spend money on. Cardiovascular disease risk high? Take a statin, every day for the rest of your life. Have a bad soft tissue injury? Hop in a million dollar MRI machine. Have inoperable brain cancer? Stick your head in this proton accelerator run by the nice (and very expensive) medical physicist.
The good news is all this stuff works a lot of the time. The medicine of 1960 was largely kee
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Are statins not a good way to keep people healthy? And costs me less than $5/month as they have been off patent for nearly 20 years. Would be less if I could be bothered splitting larger dose tablets.
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Re:America vs the rest of the world? (Score:5, Interesting)
>> countries with better healthcare
That's pretty much all countries, right?
Every time I go overseas (I'm in Australia), seeking travel insurance, the very first question is always - "Are you travelling to the United States of America?"
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>> countries with better healthcare
That's pretty much all countries, right?
Every time I go overseas (I'm in Australia), seeking travel insurance, the very first question is always - "Are you travelling to the United States of America?"
That's mainly due to health care costs in the US, especially if you don't have insurance. I'm an Australian who has emigrated to the UK, if I spend a week in Europe, travel insurance is about £5-10, the US is about £50.
US health care is fine if you've money, if you're an average working stiff you're not going to get the same quality of care the poorest Australian or Brit can depend on. That's kinda the point of this article.
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The average corporate worker gets health insurance. But even then it has limits. American health care insurance likes to disallow a lot of things. Pro-active treatments or meds tend to be rarer in America.
For example, a coworker of mine worked in Finland for a couple of years, and had a baby while there. The couple was amazed at how smooth everything was, and how readily the doctors were willing to see them even if nothing was wrong during the pregnancy. No extra fees. Or even fees. Pro-actively make su
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Back when I was a kid there'd often be grumbling from the parents about how the doctor had told them they needed to go on a diet.
TV show "Resident Alien", season 1, episode 2, "Homesick". Harry (Alan Tudyk) is an alien who crash-landed on Earth and is pretending to be a human doctor.
Patient: "I liked Sam, but he was always, 'Don't eat this, don't eat that, your diet's going to kill you.'"
Asta (Nurse): Well, what you eat is important.
Harry [chuckling] I don't agree with that.
Asta: Oh, no?
Harry: [looking at patient's chart] there are ten things on here that are going to kill him sooner than eating bad food does.
Asta: Harry!
Patient: No,
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It's not just health care. Being rich has many advantages. You get a better diet. You typically have less stress (except for those workaholic rich ones who never think they have enough). You take more vacations. You've generally had a better education, and thus know more about health. You probably go to the gym more, or at least do more outside activities.
The healthcare is important too of course, but not just because you have access. You can afford to take time off to go to the doctor!
Although these
Absolutely, yes. (Score:5, Insightful)
The first thing even modest amounts of money will buy you is a reduction in stress and a better diet. As your wealth increases, you can further reduce your stress and you can have more leisure time to keep fit and happy. At the top end, you can simply access healthcare resources that normal people can't, right up to shopping for new organs or getting access to bleeding edge treatments.
Of course, money isn't magic - all of the above assumes that you spend some of your money on a healthier lifestyle. You can be filthy rich and miserable, unhealthy, and stressed into an early grave.
Also smarter choices (Score:5, Interesting)
There's also the correlation/causation thing.
People with lots of money have probably made other smart choices in their life, and this might effect longevity as well.
It's not completely clear to me that rich people use their wealth to live longer, it may be that smart and practical people tend to be both rich and long lived.
I'd like to see this studied among people who inherited their wealth. People who inherit their wealth tend to be not-as-good in the methods of the parent/grandparent who made the fortune, so aren't as good at building wealth.
Do people who don't *earn* their wealth have a similar increase in lifespan?
Is wealth causative or just a correlation with longer life?
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The problem is that smart doesn't automatically make you wealthy. And 'smart' can apply to a fairly narrow area of expertise. Lots of smart people do dumb things.
Teasing out the cause and effect beyond 'possesses wealth, likely to live longer' is possibly an incredibly difficult task.
Reversed conditional (Score:3)
The problem is that smart doesn't automatically make you wealthy.
Yeah, but built wealth correlates with smart. We can use Bayes theorem to sort that out.
And 'smart' can apply to a fairly narrow area of expertise. Lots of smart people do dumb things.
Teasing out the cause and effect beyond 'possesses wealth, likely to live longer' is possibly an incredibly difficult task.
Dunno about that. The rule "built their own wealth" versus "inherited their wealth" should be sufficient to see the effect.
I was under the impression that science has tools available to detect correlation versus causation, but I'm not a sociologist.
Maybe it's impossible to tell.
Re:Reversed conditional (Score:5, Insightful)
The old saying goes: It's easy to become a millionaire, if you can start with 10,000,000 in your bank account.
Make it even simpler (Score:2)
If we're going to associate being wealthy with living longer, I can come up with several theories that go BOTH directions.
Wealth leads to better health and thus longer life:
Being wealthier leads to being able to access additional health resources - this goes from diet all the way to having a private jet on standby so they can be on multiple organ transplant lists. They can afford personal dieticians, trainers, spas, resorts, etc...
Being wealthier leads to less stress - You're not worried about your next me
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>Generational wealth tends to only last 3 generations
1st generation acquires it, 2nd generation lives off the investments, 3rd generation chews through the principal.
However, I think with today's billionaires you're looking at a bit of a paradigm shift, at least until the torches and pitchforks happen. They have money enough to control everything that could take wealth away from them. Trump has actually done worse than blue chip investments in the stock market, and look at him... Musk has massive inf
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I was under the impression that science has tools available to detect correlation versus causation,
Kind of, but it's a surprisingly deep problem because you need to prove a negative: that there isn't some underlying causative effect which affects both variables. But overall it's surprisingly hard and the tools of statistics don't really scratch the surface. Give "casualty" by Judea Pearl a go of you are interested in the topic.
He's also the guy who invented the currently state of the art low density parity
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The problem is that smart doesn't automatically make you wealthy. And 'smart' can apply to a fairly narrow area of expertise. Lots of smart people do dumb things.
Sure, but so do dumb people.
On average, I think the claim that intelligence positively correlates with wealth should be pretty non-controversial.
Teasing out the cause and effect beyond 'possesses wealth, likely to live longer' is possibly an incredibly difficult task.
Seriously?
I mean there's health factors that can come up earlier in life and impact both longevity and the ability to accumulate wealth.
But considering that wealth almost inevitably predates increased longevity the causal relationship seems pretty clear.
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If you would say that intelligence positively correlates with first generation wealth I may agree slightly.
But as a blanket statement, nope.
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If you would say that intelligence positively correlates with first generation wealth I may agree slightly.
But as a blanket statement, nope.
There's a well documented hereditary factor to intelligence, so the correlation should pass on. Trump is an ironically good example. He's obviously an idiot who has wealth through inheritance, but he's also obviously lucky to have survived his multiple bankruptcies.
Even for someone with the inheritance of Trump, with his intelligence and judgment in most cases he goes broke.
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When, you achieved a point of good money and you make a choice to reduce your lifetime obligations to the rat race ( going from full time to part time but not retirement ), your stress level decreases.
the reduction of stress will add healthier life to you, but I don't know if it will add time to the clock.
I know because I choose one day to change my views, and I am happier, slightly overweight, eat with joy and exercise more. so while I think the clock ends still when it's suppose to, I think I will live a
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Yeah, being more wealthy doesn't make you smarter.
Sorry, but you have some wrong ideas about wealth and the wealthy...
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Inherited wealth means you got a better start in life - you were taken to the doctor more, you had a better diet, you were probably going to do extra curricular sports or other activities more often. You went to the rich people's schools who had better food, a better school nurse, physical ed was still mandatory.
Just look at the European royal families. Other than the occasional bout of madness, those kids are fit, none of them are obese.
I don't see evidence that "building wealth" does more than inheritin
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I'd like to see this studied among people who inherited their wealth. People who inherit their wealth tend to be not-as-good in the methods of the parent/grandparent who made the fortune, so aren't as good at building wealth.
One problem with that is that health care has tended to get better over time, so the younger generation would benefit from that. This affects a lot of longitudinal studies; for example, injuries that would have been fatal 50 years ago are now survivable.
To be honest, I'm also not sure the premise is valid. Maintaining and increasing wealth is not the same as acquiring it in the first place, so the skill sets would be different. And in principle, the children could benefit from the experience of their elde
Re: Also smarter choices (Score:1)
Most wealthy people were already born wealthy. They can then waste their riches, maintain, or increase them.
Whatever happens, knowing you can take chances other people canâ(TM)t because worst that can happen is parents bailing you out is a big part of significantly higher chances of success.
Not many articles are written about old money, because it doesnâ(TM)t make for as sexy articles, as about self made billionaires, but inheritance is a deciding factor for the wealth.
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The first thing even modest amounts of money will buy you is a reduction in stress and a better diet. As your wealth increases, you can further reduce your stress and you can have more leisure time to keep fit and happy. At the top end, you can simply access healthcare resources that normal people can't, right up to shopping for new organs or getting access to bleeding edge treatments.
Of course, money isn't magic - all of the above assumes that you spend some of your money on a healthier lifestyle. You can be filthy rich and miserable, unhealthy, and stressed into an early grave.
I worked for a company where the founder had windfall that we believed was tens of millions. He was still at the company for a year before he left.
Before, he was a picture of middle age bad health. Huge gut, round mushy pasty face and just horrible posture. One of the few things we noticed was that after the money, he started getting slimmer and looked healthier and had a slight tan. After a year, he had lost his gut, his face had actual lines and he started walking almost elegantly.
He had connections in Eu
After you wasted that life making money? (Score:2)
Seems like a really stupid approach to me.
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You do you (Score:2)
Seems like a really stupid approach to me.
a) Some people enjoy making money
b) Making money typically involves building things, which add to civilization
c) Making money is a good way to protect and support a family
d) People with money typically give it away to good causes
d.1) Possibly their family, which they view as a good cause
d.2) Much of the charity institutions in our civilization are funded by the rich
To quote Cabaret: "personally, I prefer money".
But you do you...
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You should cut back on the propaganda consumption. It has started to seriously rot your brain.
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Sounds like denial to me.
Re: After you wasted that life making money? (Score:2)
So time only moves forward, but... (Score:2)
History matters. Do you think those up to 59 years before they started tracking people mattered at all? Heck no, it was only the current money and actions.
Oh and poor people often were poor before. (Score:2)
Can't say that I know the precise statistics, but I can attest that becoming poor makes you much more likely to stay poor, or get worse.
Anyway, I should just stop caring what these click-bait stories are. Think /. might be dead for me soon. Just glance at titles at most, then laugh and ignore them. Maybe that's what I'll do... start on a personal AI filter.
The rich are better off than the poor (Score:3)
"minimizing screen time before bedtime" ?! (Score:2)
I sleep well and 7-8 hours.
Even if I didn't, I very much doubt that late screen time would shorten my life.
Is the WSJ throwing random nonsense into their stories, or is there some (presumably dubious) research to back this up?
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I do not do this. I sleep well and 7-8 hours. Even if I didn't, I very much doubt that late screen time would shorten my life.
I do this regularly. I make the window much smaller and keep the same screen time as always.
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From 1776 to 1992, no ex-president has lived past age 92 (out of nearly 40 ex-presidents). Since 1992 we've had 4 presidents do that (Ford, Reagan, GHW Bush, and Carter).
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Slow News Day (Score:2)
Re:Slow News Day (Score:5, Insightful)
Stories from the no-shit-department. How is this news for nerds?
I am convinced slashdot's mission in life these days, as well as the rest of "social" media and legacy media is to piss off one slice of America so they go to war against another slice of America.
Pretty much all media is designed to make you angry.
I find myself consuming less and less of it.
How's your mobile hits, asshats? The mobile hits have tanked, amirite?
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I am convinced slashdot's mission in life these days, as well as the rest of "social" media and legacy media is to piss off one slice of America so they go to war against another slice of America.
Pretty much all media is designed to make you angry.
I find myself consuming less and less of it.
How's your mobile hits, asshats? The mobile hits have tanked, amirite?
Why would a simple question make you so angry? If you keep getting pissed off at all the media then maybe the problem is you and not the media.
The "slice of America" you speak of seems a bit fragile. A snowflake is a good analogy.
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Mr. Bunker, I was speaking of all of media in general. Not just this article, not just this "question."
did I get angry? No. Did I say people get angry at the news? yes.
How do you know what slices I'm talking about? Are you in my head? No. But now you have people shooting CEO's in the back like fucking pussies, instead of doing it looking them in the eye, like a mensch. But nevermind that -- College-educated liberals shooting CEOs in the back is a real bad look for your side, isn't it?
Now kindly remove
Can Money Buy You a Longer Life? (Score:2)
Can Money Buy You a Longer Life? Yes, and that stinks. Healthcare should be effective - cheap, decentralized, and very very highly automated. Right now, the rich can afford it and the poor get by with less.
By now we have self driving toy cars for 7 tears [designboom.com]-- so why cannot we have cheap at-home robots that take venous blood samples safely and analyse it? At-home AI-driven stethescopes, ultrasound, ECG, EEG machines ?
The medical system has become too structured and burdened-down with licensing, departmental si
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Mix of reasons. The hardware for the car isn't complicated. It's been pretty commodity stuff since the mid 90s (when rc tours became cheap), and it's become cheaper and better ever since. Bldc motors cost potential because the drivers now cost peanuts. The rest is very very very commodity: is a stock camera with a stock wireless chip and a stock SoC to paste it together.
As for the at home stuff...
Well extracting blood safely is hard, if you don't want to infect the victim. There are no known solutions to th
It’s a bimodal thing (Score:2)
If you have more chronic-type stuff or just plain old age, oh hell yes money can extend your life.
I’ve seen both these things at play. First hand.
With biotech going the way it is, money will be able to buy more and more lif
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It seems logical given the imminent population issue that this would be one of the best kept secrets...
Old age is no reward. (Score:2)
Humans live because we could not evolve without fearing death.
Old age is a race to failure between body and mind. That race is inexorable be it fast or slow.
You either go mad and die later, or you die before that happens. There are no other outcomes.
Correlation and causation (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course, correlation does not imply causation, as I'm sure everyone here already knows. In this case there is an obvious confounding variable.
One of the biggest predictors of success in life and higher incomes is the personality trait of conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is one of the five major personality traits in the 5 factor model of personality. Conscientious people are far more likely to go to college, obtain training, work diligently at their career, focus on long-term goals, and so on. Thus, conscientiousness is a major predictor of life success and also income.
Furthermore, it's a reasonable guess that conscientious people are also more likely to follow their physician's instructions, take their blood pressure medications, exercise, lose weight when their physician instructs them to do so, engage in preventative care, follow traffic regulations, and so on.
It would be interesting if research were published which corrected for this variable. You could compare health outcomes in the highest vs lowest decile of income while keeping conscientiousness the same. This could be done by studying people with a lot of money but who have low conscientiousness anyway (perhaps people with large inheritances).
Having money made me a lot fatter (Score:2)
After I had money I started trying out restaurants and walking a lot less. I ride Ubers all over the place so... I dont even have to walk to the nearest bus stop. And I can order my food online these days so I dont have to walk inside a supermarket even. Couple that with working from home and my leg muscles have completely melted away. Also I had a lot of time in my hands for outdoorsy activities when I was younger and now I barely have time to breathe. Every time I've been unemployed in the past I used to
It can stop you dying ... (Score:2)
It can remove things that make you die before your time, but it can't make you live longer
Canonically the expected length of life in the bible is three score years and ten - 70 was the age you were expected to reach if nothing else killed you
In the UK it is now 85 - USA 78 - Japan 87
Some people live longer, as they always have, nobody really knows why - they put up reasons (e.g. Mediterranean diet) but most people die younger
The oldest person on Earth is currently 116 .. this is around the same age as the o
Bile (Score:2)
Im genuinely surprised by the low bar now required to get an article featured on slashdot.
Social Justice be damned in the face of capitalism.
Money has no value on a planet in hospitable to life, no amount can save rich people from this
fact.
DIfference is not Healthy Lifestyles (Score:2)
Once Americans make it to their late 50s, the wealthiest 10% live to a median age of around 86 years, roughly 14 years longer than the least wealthy 10%,
Its important to remember that the attributes of a population can't be applied to the individuals in that population.
The bottom 10% of people in their late 50's probably includes a lot of people who are outliers almost by definition. People who are poor because they are already suffering bad health or were never in very good health. They are already missing limbs. They have untreated mental health problems. It includes a lot of drug users. Many of them are living on the street. They are working at jobs that