The Social Recession by the Numbers - Part Four

As we adjust the dials of suffering using technology to move suffering from bucket one or challenges from bucket two into bucket three we're playing with a machine we scarcely understand. The goal is easy to understand make the world better and it's obviously admirable but our understanding of how moving the dials relates to achieving that goal is crude and incomplete. In August 2022 the CDC announced that US life expectancy has fallen further and is now where it was in 1996. Even before the pandemic the years 2015 to 2017 saw the longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since 1915 to 1918.