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quonn on Nov 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Against Productivity

Why is this downvoted? Given that the US is as economically powerful as it is, why _is_ life expectancy lower [0], compared to other _developed_ nations? Check out Canada, Australia, Japan and West-Europe on the map.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Life_Exp...

runj__ on Nov 10, 2014 [–]

The US is a big country, it's incredibly diverse. Comparing the US as a whole to other countries is not really fair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_exp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_...

But we can of course all pick our own statistics to fit our standpoint. But it's important to keep in mind that the US can be a bit of an edge case.

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