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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

still 20 years! Average USA lifespan for man is 75 year. He should already be dead by now.

Yes money help with living longer, but with his bad health hygiene it should cancel out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Average mean means middle...half the population is still alive at average age unfortunately. But fortunately the whole age range is non-linear because nobody gets to be 150 years old. More like 1 person in the world might get to be 125 years old if they never smoked, never had even looked at a MacDonalds burger on TV etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Jean Clemente (the oldest human ever) smoked cigarettes (she didn't inhale) and ate pounds of chocolate at a time. The oldest Canadian woman ever smoked until she was in her 90s (she lived to be 116), and plenty of other people who lived to be 100 also had ridiculously unhealthy lifestyles but still lived long.

For Trump, his father lived to be in his 90s. His grandfather died younger because he was a victim of the Spanish Flu in 1918. We don't know how long he will live, sadly. But I hope he will die of natural causes soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Life expectancy depends on wealth. What's the average for rich people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Same as some peasant in any civilized country with universal healthcare. Something like 83 or so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nope. In countries with universal healthcare life expectancy sadly is still dependent on wealth. Better food, better doctors, lower chance of having a hazardous job, better ability to rest instead of rushing back to work etc etc.

(i.e. Germany: About 5 years on average between poorest and richest.) Inequality is bad for us, everywhere.