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0 pointsslibhb1y ago0 comments

"Negatively impacts mortality" doesn't mean "kills" or "causes to die". "Bad for health" is a better interpretation. Do you really believe that unemployment + bankruptcy = death? If you don't believe that, then why are you writing sentences like this:

> Do most people who labor for wages just go unemployed, and then bankrupt, and then die?

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kelseyfrog1y ago

Yes. The all-cause mortality hazard ratio for unemployment is 1.85[1]. Nearly doubling mortality is an incredible result. Reducing my argument to a guarantee of death in order to prove it wrong is absurd.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4677456/

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