While we have been focused for a while on plummeting fertility rates and falling birth numbers of new consumers and taxpaying citizens in the industrialized world, sneaking up on the other side of the Depopulation Equation is a so far less advertized increasing Death Rate.  So far Elon Musk has not made it a personal quest to exhort the less fortunate from dying so quickly, I suppose since this is not nearly as much fun as he has impregnating A-list vaginas as his contribution toward saving homo saps from self extinction.

So, our confused leaders and pundits ask the question, "Why are Amerikans dying so much faster these days?"  Let me postulate a politically incorrect answer.  They are finding fewer things each day worth living for.  The movies and music suck and the X-box games are repetitive.  The world is a polluted shithole and overstuffed to bursting with meat packages as dumb as rocks.  The world is the Hotel California, and since you can never leave, you might as well just check out.

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4354004-this-is-bigger-than-covid-why-are-so-many-americans-dying-early/

This is bigger than COVID: Why are so many Americans dying early?


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They are finding fewer things each day worth living for.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 17, 2023, 09:47 PMThey are finding fewer things each day worth living for.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

If all the ports are under water, there's no favorable place to moor the ship.

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