It’s upsetting for 2 reasons. 1.) not true. 2.) US has awful benefits for seniors. Some of the worst in the “developed” or “civilized” world or any other vaguely white supremacist phrase used to describe the Western world, but I digress, US has a high age for benefits for seniors (which they actually raised recently to exclude more elderly people) and the US is so dangerous in different ways that the US gov essentially doesn’t want the population to reach the age to get the meager benefits of social security. Whether it’s the dangerous gun culture, the rampant alcoholism and drug culture, the crime rates that occur due to high unemployment, Janet Yellen saying she wants unemployment even higher for the sake of the interest rate. The disgustingly exorbitant prices of medical care and insurance. These things all affect life expectancy so that people don’t live to old age. China doesn’t have those issues. I’m not dumb, obviously people do drugs and drink alcohol in China, but it’s like child’s play compared to Miami or Vegas or NYC. And yes there exist some poor people in China that are old, but they are not in objective poverty, like so many are in the USA.
It’s upsetting for 2 reasons. 1.) not true. 2.) US has awful benefits for seniors. Some of the worst in the “developed” or “civilized” world or any other vaguely white supremacist phrase used to describe the Western world, but I digress, US has a high age for benefits for seniors (which they actually raised recently to exclude more elderly people) and the US is so dangerous in different ways that the US gov essentially doesn’t want the population to reach the age to get the meager benefits of social security. Whether it’s the dangerous gun culture, the rampant alcoholism and drug culture, the crime rates that occur due to high unemployment, Janet Yellen saying she wants unemployment even higher for the sake of the interest rate. The disgustingly exorbitant prices of medical care and insurance. These things all affect life expectancy so that people don’t live to old age. China doesn’t have those issues. I’m not dumb, obviously people do drugs and drink alcohol in China, but it’s like child’s play compared to Miami or Vegas or NYC. And yes there exist some poor people in China that are old, but they are not in objective poverty, like so many are in the USA.