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by yummyfajitas 4503 days ago
If you believe that life expectancy in some particular group has gone down in a manner correlated with inequality, post data showing it.

In cities, if you are also black or hispanic , a high chance of death by violence.

Do you believe that if the 1% had less money, poor blacks/hispanics would be less likely to kill other poor blacks/hispanics? If not, this is irrelevant.

I haven't double checked this, but I strongly suspect that even as inequality has risen in the US, the rate of poor blacks being murdered has gone down. (Reason: poor blacks being murdered is a big chunk of the murder rate, and murders and other crime have generally gone down.)