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0 pointsdjrobstep5y ago0 comments

Check out the correlation between poverty and lower life expectancy, and it will become clear that poverty is indeed a death sentence (not to mention its effects on quality of life).

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smnrchrds5y ago

Again, you are absolutely right, but moving the goalpost once more. The lower life expectancy is not due to starvation to death. It is mostly a result of health issues, which is in all likelihood more due to the lack of access to healthcare than food.

nobody99995y ago

> It is mostly a result of health issues, which is in all likelihood more due to the lack of access to healthcare than food.

Is it? What statistics do you have to support that? And do those statistics track poor nutrition due to poverty as a component, or do they just ignore that?

burntoutfire5y ago

Correlation is not causation, it doesn't really explain anything... I thought that by 2020 at least people on HN get that.

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