Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoLife expectancy worldwide has more than doubled since the year 1900.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1168arrow-down1external-linkLife expectancy worldwide has more than doubled since the year 1900.en.wikipedia.orgQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square25linkfedilinkfile-text
Average lifespan in 1900 - 31 years Average lifespan in 1950 - 46 years Average lifespan in 2020 - 73 years
minus-squarelemmock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 days agoHang on just a minute… Eyekaytee@aussie.zone is extolling the virtues of capitalism! Surely, education and scientific research have nothing to do with significantly improving the average human lifespan over the past 100 years or so!
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·20 days agoWell lets look at China for example, here it is during peak Communism (dead bodies from the multiple famines not shown): And here it is after opening itself up to the free market and international trade: I guess just a coincidence!
Hang on just a minute… Eyekaytee@aussie.zone is extolling the virtues of capitalism! Surely, education and scientific research have nothing to do with significantly improving the average human lifespan over the past 100 years or so!
Well lets look at China for example, here it is during peak Communism (dead bodies from the multiple famines not shown):
And here it is after opening itself up to the free market and international trade:
I guess just a coincidence!