Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries. Why?

why? Because:

- the car is the most used trandportation method and especially in suburbs you need it for everything, since nothing is in a distance where other methods work.

- the food contains too much sugar and fat, since its cheap for everything.

- guns are everywhere and every member of the police has to expect that anyone else can shoot him or that he/she is called into a active shooting

- heathcare costs more than in every other developed country. So people don't make appointment unless they have to.

Here's the actual study, which avoids the histrionic editorializing of the original article, and should replace it. https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/53/2/dyae024/7632338?lo...

If you read the study, and check the supplemental charts, you will see that there is one, and only one, clear cause of divergence in mortality between the US and peer nations: Drug overdoses.

Homicide is higher but has fallen steadily over the time measured, with a recent spike in 2020 (gosh, what's that about?). Nothing else shows any sort of sharp divergence.

American's are too busy working to take time off for doctor visit's. This likely leads to easily preventable deaths. Many have jobs that even going to a doctors visit (or any other similar errand during working hours) could lead to them losing their job.

I hear in Japan one of the only few reasons you can miss work without consequences is to visit the doctor, so in Japan people go to the doctor a lot. Maybe this leads to finding more illnesses early?

Things are so warped in the US that if your employer finds out you are sick/ill you will be targeted to be fired if they can find some other non-medical excuse to get rid of you. I know a few people fired "for cause" soon after disclosing to their employer they have cancer and might need to take a little extra time off for treatment.

Stress from overwork (Americans are overtime hogs relatively), no vacations, and mental health issues which likely stem from higher childhood traumatic violence [ACEs] (dead canary: spanking and mgm are still stupidly common) causing knock-on effects down the line with higher disease morbidity.

Guns?

Avoiding the obvious. Wage theft, and ever increasing CoL being driven by excessive corporate profit taking fueled by over-inflated asset prices constantly sent ever higher by the systemic need to endlessly ensure "line always go up".

Complete misslignment of economic institutions with effectively satisfying the demands of the current group of working class.

Institutions having been stripped so far down to the bone human resources-wise such that workloads are constantly maximized; excessive cognitive load all the time with no relief results in worse mental health and animosity toward the institutional core requiring everyone to burn out all the time.

Ya know. Shit that can't be handled by an economic regime of "alpha before all else*.