Noah Smith Questions If European Elites Want Citizens To Die

@Noahpinion This is an ego thing

@Noahpinion They do have AC in the critical care rooms; nobody is dying of heat related complications inside hospitals.

@Noahpinion This is coming from an American whose average life expectancy is 4 years less than in Europe.

The US is the only country on earth where the average life expectancy is falling.

Do elite Americans want to save for retirement since they are dying from lifestyle diseases.

@nielsen_pe50582 @Noahpinion The entire point was whether you have a choice or not. The Americans have a choice to not eat fast food, but they do. Many Europeans do not have the choice to put an AC unit due to government laws.

EU fertility rate is 1.4, in the US it's 1.8. Clearly someone is dying off.

@Noahpinion There are some cases where Europeans literally cannot get AC, like if you live in a rental unit where the owners will not permit you to install it even on your own dime, but you should realize that the majority of Europeans are still homeowners who are simply choosing not to.

@Noahpinion Beginning to think this is their answer to pension costs

@nielsen_pe50582 @Noahpinion Americans live slightly shorter lives because they choose to have an unhealthy lifestyle with a terrible diet. With obesity rate at 40% it's how people choose to live, not how their "elites" force them to. In Europe you're forced to die of a heat stroke due to ideology.

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@jacopone2 @Noahpinion E da quando gli americani si interessano ala nostra di salute?🤔

@Noahpinion Sure. It saves pensions. 😎

@Mandatorysign1 @Noahpinion It’s absurd to claim Europeans die because they lack air conditioning. A 4‑year gap in life expectancy is significant, and the US is the only Western country where it’s falling. Unhealthy lifestyles and weak food‑safety laws—allowing additives banned elsewhere—play a major role.

@Noahpinion They think suffering is sustainable and unfortunately they're correct.

@Mandatorysign1 @Noahpinion You don't have that when money rules in the US and the food companies have too much power.

Many additives that are illegal in the rest of the world are legal in the US. 4 years is not a little.

There is absolutely no one saying you can't install AC in Europe.

@nielsen_pe50582 @Noahpinion In the US they have every option, including healthy ones. They CHOOSE sugar and salt. In many European cities with preservation laws (Geneva, Vienna, London, Berlin etc.) you cannot put an AC unit in a private home. It's not a coincidence there are so many heatstroke deaths.

@Mandatorysign1 @Noahpinion I live in Denmark where the summer is very short. We have 7-10 summer days a year where it is 25 degrees and above.

Hope global warming comes to Denmark.

@Noahpinion That is a massive logical leap. Europe has plenty of internal policy debates, but framing it as elite vs regular people wanting death is pure conspiracy theory fuel.

@Noahpinion Elite Europeans are naive and stupid like everyone. They don’t give a fuck about losing a couple millennia of legacy and toil.

@Noahpinion Yes!

@Noahpinion Here in Spain, air conditioning is considered (except maybe in the cooler north-west) an essential item.

@Noahpinion to a much lesser degree american elites want to kill regular americans