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Originally Posted by Obadno
You said you'd rather live in a country with a higher life expectancy but why would I care what the average life expectancy is when I know I will already surpass it baring a freak accident?
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Obdano, again, it's not us, but the entire population. I, for instance, live in a country with a much lower GDP per capita than both the US or W. Europe but I had no intention to move there because I'm doing ok down here. On the other hand, many of my countrymen might want to look for better conditions.
US society has many issues that doesn't allow many people to live long and healthy years. Stress at work, lack of preventive medicine, huge debts, lack of social stability, etc. etc. Good for you that you are above all that, but millions of your countrymen face those challenges.
That's why despite the US edging Western Europe GDP per capita wise, it lags when it come to life expectancy, for instance. Moreover, the poorer sections of society tends to do worse in the US than in W. Europe. What's the point for a society to produce a huge number of billionaires when huge sections of society doesn't profit of it at all?