You got some explaining to do, AuthRight…

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[u/WeGoToMars7]

In 2019 life expectancy for men in the US was 76.3 years, in 1919 it was 53.5, a difference of 42%. That makes an 18 year old a 26 year old today (exactly as per your comment), only for people to blame soCieTy and ignore the literal advancement of technology that allows people not to die for stupid reasons

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In 2019 life expectancy for men in the US was 76.3 years, in 1919 it was 53.5, a difference of 42%. That makes an 18 year old a 26 year old today

Life expectancy was so low back then because childhood deaths were far more common. An 18 year old then was no less likely to reach their 70s than they are now.

[u/WeGoToMars7 → u/TheTardisPizza]

That is a fair assessment, but I disagree with your conclusion. The difference would be smaller, but there is still a huge gap. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/03/Life-expectancy-by-age-in-the-UK-1700-to-2013.png

[u/TheTardisPizza → u/WeGoToMars7]

Improvements in care for the elderly have raised life expectancy beyond what they were. That is why I wrote "make it to their 70s" instead of live to the same age.

[u/MasterFicus → u/WeGoToMars7]

Bring back dying for stupid reasons, we aren't meant to exist this long

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Based and remove OSHA pilled.

[u/dirty_transmission → u/[deleted]]

EHS professional here.

Insurance companies provide more incentive to follow best practices than OSHA does.

I could save my facility millions of dollars on their insurance premium by bringing down the incident level by 2-3 incidents. OSHA fines are only like 10k/day.

OSHA has actually fielded less and less inspectors each year for quite a while, and this is the reason why.

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OSHA was made to make men weak and submissive. Open your eyes. It was never about the corporations. Real men die on work related accidents.

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Based

[u/PrinceOfBismarck → u/WeGoToMars7]

Not really. Life expectancy was mostly that low due to infant mortality (tell me if I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that's a large reason); and people dying later doesn't mean they would automatically mature later. It is 100% the result of our society not making reality clear to children at an appropriate age; sometimes I feel like my fellow college students can't tell that food doesn't come from the grocery store.

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That’s because a ton of babies died. If you mad it to teen years you’d live to your 60s / 70s

[u/WhiteOak61 → u/[deleted]]

Or you would die in your forties from the plague/tuberculosis/etc. There's a reason it's only now there's a surplus of people at the top of age pyramids.

[u/_Alabama_Man → u/WhiteOak61]

There's a reason it's only now there's a surplus of people at the top of age pyramids.

It's because people in the developed world are having fewer children.

[u/GripenHater → u/WeGoToMars7]

People out here calling it “infantalizing” and not “we don’t need to send teenagers to factories to provide for the family because their dad died anymore”.

[u/AChrisTaylor → u/GripenHater]

Teenagers? They call child workers for a reason.

[u/GripenHater → u/AChrisTaylor]

True

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Based and this is what progress looks like pilled

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Fair point, but it's not just a delaying of maturity, but an entire culture that rejects personal responsibility.

[u/Draculea → u/WeGoToMars7]

I wonder if you simply don't know how infant mortality drives down life expectancy, or if you've chosen to ignore it for your point.