
Inequality's Insidious Spread - COVID-19, India, Insurance
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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Living Longer Is a Disgrace
We don't support early life. The period from roughly conception to when you're blowing out two candles on your second birthday cake, roughly half of your health as an adult has already been programmed. There are only two countries in the world that don't give a working woman who's pregnant paid time off after she has her baby. That's a disgrace. How do you account for me? I know you're a physician. You're a professor of public health. But a disgrace on that scale with how it limits how long we live and what you've told us about its role in making us suffer more than we could have or should have.
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