I'm not sure there is anything to explain. I was pointing out that life expectancy is not an accurate proxy for the performance of a country's healthcare system.
So if life expectancy is ranked like this: Europe > Cuba > USA. It's still possible for the quality of the healthcare systems to be like this: Europe > USA > Cuba. Because Cuba's life expectancy is artificially raised by forcing everyone on to a healthy diet through rationing.
What do you think life expectancy would be like in the USA if everyone was forced to eat healthily?
... it's also their nutrition programs.
What a great euphemism for rationing. One of the reasons the US has a lower life expectancy is that US citizens have the money and right to eat whatever they want.
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It seems like the "developers" need to take some advice from people who actually know what they are doing. I'm happy to help explain what graceful degradation means if they like...
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How many people in Detroit were out of work once robots started spot welding all the car frames and moving parts into position for assembly
Any how many people were put out of work because people couldn't affort to go to a restaurant, cinema, or bar because of the high price of cars? Do you think that if we banned robots everybody would be employed and prices wouldn't rise? At the end of the day if someone is employed somebody else has to pay their salary. Destroying productivity never creates jobs.
...nearly all of the extra wealth created by this productivity increase is channeled into corporate dividends and not wages..Pattern is very clear - less workers doing more for about the same pay.
Except this is wrong. With competition the increases did not all go to shareholders. As companies competed prices fell. Food, cars, etc are all either cheaper or of much higher quality (often both). The poor of today live like the kings of the dark ages because they can afford many things that only the richest could afford before (or weren't even available then).
All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. -- Dawkins