{"id":5615,"date":"2017-05-29T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","slug":"when-privilege-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/when-privilege-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"When privilege kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s behind the increased rate of deaths from suicide, drug abuse, and heart disease for middle-aged white Americans? According to Nobel Prize winning economists Case and Deaton, it might be that [they’re just not able to fulfill their own expectations](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/03\/24\/the-disease-killing-white-americans-goes-way-deeper-than-opioids\/):<\/p>\n

> Most of the increase in white deaths is concentrated among those who never finished college. These are the same people who have been pummeled by the economy in recent decades…<\/p>\n

> White American men without a college degree still earn 36 percent more than their black counterparts. But the death rate among less-educated black Americans has actually been decreasing…<\/p>\n

> Case and Deaton believe that white Americans may be suffering from a lack of hope. The pain in their bodies might reflect a “spiritual” pain caused by “cumulative distress, and the failure of life to turn out as expected.”<\/p>\n

Maybe Calvin had it right after all:<\/p>\n

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What’s behind the increased rate of deaths from suicide, drug abuse, and heart disease for middle-aged white Americans? According to Nobel Prize winning economists Case and Deaton, it might be that [they’re just not able to fulfill their own expectations](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/03\/24\/the-disease-killing-white-americans-goes-way-deeper-than-opioids\/): > Most of the increase in white deaths is concentrated among those who never finished…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,374,391],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness-2","category-mindfulness","category-sociology","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1sz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}