If you live in the Washington, DC suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, home to lawyers and lobbyists, you can expect to live to be 82 if you’re a man and 85 if you’re a woman.*
But if you live 350 miles away, in McDowell County, West Virginia, where people shovel coal, not bullshit, for a living, you can expect to live to be 64 if you’re a man and 73 if you’re a woman. That’s about what life expectancy is in Iraq!
Rich people don’t just have more stuff, they get to enjoy it far longer.
* “Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap,” Annie Lowrey, NYT
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