Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
by chmod600 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @06:41PM
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"nor miners spending days in dust and dark"
Then how do they get metal?
Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
by birdyrooster on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:33AM
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My source is https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-men-often-die-earlie...
What is yours?
Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
by watwut on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:10PM
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The article you sent literally confirms what I said. It lists multiple reasons, more dangerous jobs being only one. The rest are mix of lifestyle and genetics.
As for smoking and alcohol, those statistics are easy to find too. Both contemporary and past ones.
Also, article starts with premise that author expects to live shorter then his wife - but he has extraordinary safe job.
Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
by birdyrooster on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:31PM
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The smoking and alcohol are copes for stress that they wouldn’t have without the added risk to their health and emotional well being.
There used to be difference in terms of men drinking and smoking much more then women, but that is equalizing too.
Basically, even if men dont do anything dangerous, dont drink nor smoke more, they still tend to die sooner.
And if we are talking about past, it gets complicated too due to huge amount of childbirth deaths and poverty affecting women and men differently (in some periods, prostitution being only realistic employment for single women basically which comes with its own risks). Meaning, it was not always the idylic family situation people tend to imagine when making these comparisons.