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Any sources to back that up? All I can find is rising life expectancy across the board globally, with a dip during the pandemic that almost all countries have recovered from. The US has been a bit sluggish there, but still.


Yes. There has been a regression in these metrics for white folks in the US. This is the first generation of whites in America who can expect to earn less and live shorter lives than their parents. However, that doesn’t generalize to the rest of the population, or world, and in America the reasons are policy: healthcare and education. Not because AI or tech broadly is particularly pernicious.




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