Millennial here. I have had several unaddressed health issues for at least 5 years. I can’t afford to go through another diagnosis/ treatment process because I’m still recovering, financially, from the unrelated health issues I had diagnosed and partially fixed with surgery a few years ago. I also haven’t seen a dentist in at least 8 years. I work way too much and I’m barely keeping my head above water despite doing everything right and living frugally. I’m hoping whatever is going on with me isn’t something terminal, and that I can last long enough to move to a country that supports its people. The US sure as shit isn’t it.
Yeah, move. Takes about 3 months to most countries in America to get a residency visa
Life expectancy is already declining. This isn’t just a “new generation” thing. From Gen X onward we’re all doing worse.
I been saying for years. Millennials will be the first generation where the expected life span will go down. And that’s due to generational inequality. Our parents are literally killing us.
It’s sad to think that humanity may have peaked already.
The best time to be alive in the west (unless you’re a minority, because we HAVE made advances in accepting people for who they are) was probably more than half a century ago.
Sure, technology gives us lots of cool stuff. But it’s been discovered that it’s more profitable to keep us fat and addicted, and we’re perfectly content to let all the profits go to the top 0.1 to 1%.
Humanity is just stuck in a rut until the billionaires are overturned and we can get back on track attempting to improve life again. Those with money are killing us all bit by bit
bit by bit
Enjoy it while you can. It’ll be a lot by a lot the moment automation makes us truly redundant
Makes sense considering our parents and their parents completely fucked over the world.
The hippies were better than the generation before them.
It might be incrementally getting better.
its going to be interesting to see the Xers who were raised on a lot more processed food than previous generations.
I think this is it. Motives can be debated, but I’m convinced the food supply is the real problem - not lack of universal health care. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. What the boomers ate is considered ‘boutique’ or ‘organic’. If we could go back to that food supply chain, I think many of our ailments would go away.
