Capitalism and mortality: Death rate soars for middle-aged US workers

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. "At this rate, non-whites might eventually start to be slightly less in the minority! The horror!"

I find your metrics of social progress... odd.

I wonder if your glee schadenfreude might be subdued if it were pointed out that white women aren't immune?

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/rising-death-rates-among-middle-aged-white-americans-due-epidemic-drugs-alcohol

From Princeton

Although death rates related to drugs, alcohol and suicides have risen for middle-aged whites at all education levels, the largest increases are seen among those with the least education, the researchers found. For those with a high school degree or less, deaths caused by drug and alcohol poisoning rose fourfold; suicides rose by 81 percent; and deaths caused by liver disease and cirrhosis rose by 50 percent.

All-cause mortality rose by 22 percent for this least-educated group. Those with some college education saw little change in overall death rates, and those with a bachelor's degree or higher actually saw death rates decline.

Yes, I'd describe a four-fold increase "soaring".