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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (9 children)

The life expectancy of 75 is an average (of the US population i assume), billionaires are likely to live longer

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    75 years of nation-wide life expectancy is also likely to include early deaths due to accidents, cancer and such. People who die of "old age" typically do later than 75.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    Yep, and that was true even going all the way back through history. People weren't routinely dying in their 30s or whatever before modern medicine; it's just that a lot more of them were dying in infancy/early childhood and that brought down the average. (That's the situation anti-vaxxers are trying to go back to, BTW.)

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