r/europe Smugness Is Beyond Belief
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jqcxr0/why_do_poor_people_in_western_europe_live_longer/
The survival rate for wealthy Americans was on par with the poorest people in northern and western Europe, and with eastern Europeans overall.
Poor Europeans can expect to live at least as long as rich Americans, and in some cases even longer, a new study has found.
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By how much?
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/04/03/why-do-poor-people-in-western-europe-live-longer-than-wealthy-americans
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France: 83
Germany: 82
Greece: 82
United States: 78
So the poorest in those countries must live >78 and the richest in the US must live <82m putting the gap between 0 and 4.
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the issue is they include bipocs and other poor people. the white, male top 1% in america lives forever. but you must be white, extremely wealth and male. otherwise your not living long
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Men have lower life expectancy than women pretty much everywhere though.
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your actually right on this one i faintly recall a paper proving it the other way but idk. gap is still over a year but life expectancy for people making $2m+ is something like 90 years.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4866586/#S14
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Not in my household
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Please don't take him seriously .
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Wrong
https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1jq1s6u/comment/ml3tujn/?context=8
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Average life expectancy of the US is 78 years*. This study examines life expectancies starting at 50 and up.
Do you really think there is zero difference between life expectancies overall for Americans and for those in their 50s and up?
It's odd.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
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Americans are an extremely consistent people
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No, it's odd because if you live past 50, your life expectancy would be higher than the average--starting at birth.
Have a dowmarsey for being dumb.
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Plenty of eurosmug
Plenty of drama
If you want facts go back to Reddit.
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I want facts, so I'll go back to rdrama!
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