Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Posted: Mon May 01, 2023 7:29 am
https://brentfellman.substack.com/p/ed- ... -beginningHiggenbotham wrote: Sun Apr 30, 2023 5:11 pmHiggenbotham wrote: Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:15 pm Half of the 7 million are getting disability checks and half are on daily pain meds, according to a discussion I watched.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364990/The finding that nearly half of prime age, NLF men take pain medication on any given day and that 40 percent report that pain prevents them from accepting a job suggests that pain management interventions could potentially be helpful.
NLF = not in the labor force
A lot of men's skeletal structures (spines mostly) have already been destroyed, so for those it is pretty much a done deal. That probably goes back to soil depletion, factory farms, fast food and other sources of malnutrition.
This could be considered another indirect source of population depletion if someone wanted to count it that way. The people are here, but not really present in any significant way.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics keeps good stats on the level of disabilities in the Civilian Labor Force, and for good reason. In the charts above we see that there was a large increase in the % of the workforce with disabilities at the start of 2021 to 2022 with no sign of decreasing. Overall, Dowd finds a 24.6% increase in disabilities in the workforce since 2021. In the same chart it shows the cumulative uptake of vax doses which also took a steep increase at the exact same time. We see a strong correlation there. In math we call that a proportional relationship.