The 125 percent solution for American health care

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The 125 percent solution for American health care: America is the best (at paying almost 10x the cost for a basic medical procedure).

Good food is a privilege only wealthy Americans can afford

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Good food is a privilege only wealthy Americans can afford:

Haha, the photo is funny because in the near future only millionaires will get melons. The rest of us will get melon-flavored McD’s crispy pies.

Rickets returns to the UK as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable.

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Rickets returns to the UK as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable.:

Poverty

 is forcing people to have dangerously poor diets and is leading to the return of rickets and gout – diseases of the Victorian age that affect bones and joints – according the UK Faculty of Public Health.

A quick reminder that our society being economically f*cked isn’t limited to the US. Enjoy the global economic contagion.

“The first stages of decline may already have started. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and…”

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“The first stages of decline may already have started. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and ongoing economic malaise may be a harbinger of the fallout from resource constraints. The pursuit of material wealth contributed to unsustainable levels of debt, with suddenly higher prices for food and oil contributing to defaults – and the GFC.”

Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we’re nearing collapse.