this infrastructure we have was designed to kill the poor younger and younger and it’s doing its job:
men like george h. w. bush and john mccain they get to live well past life expectancy while they mercilessly cause the deaths of everyone poor around them.
Holy shit I was expecting something closer to a scatter plot. This isn’t just a correlation, it is a direct association between income and life expectancy. They are killing the poor.
And this chart is just life expectancy at 40. I have friends who’ve died long before 40. In most states about 60% of opioid deaths are in the 25-44 age group
1985: National Geo make millions from ‘Afghan Girl’ portrait
2016: Still has the status of a refugee and may spend 14 years in jail because of her papers
I fucking hate this picture and everything it represents. Steve McCurry made millions off of this picture and its what launched his photojournalism career into the spotlight. While the woman in this picture got absolutely NOTHING and lived an awful and horrific existence. And calling her “Afghan Girl” is so disrespectful. Her name is Sharbat Gula and her life could have been made 1000X easier had McCurry shared his wealth with her – or even if he couldn’t find her, to share it with of refugees who he exploited. And honestly the idea of a white man going into wartorn nations (that are that way bc of american imperialism) to take pictures of refugees to profit off of their pain and trauma is gross
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