Nope - definitely the white people (like myself) living longerā¦
As of 2020, Hispanics had a life expectancy at birth of 78.8 years, followed by non-Hispanic Whites at 77.6 years and non-Hispanic blacks at 71.8 Years.[17] In 2021, life expectancy for Native Americans was 65 years. For black Americans, 71; for white Americans, 76; for Hispanic Americans, 78; and 84 for Asian Americans.[
I donāt think anyone āhatesā anyone. That is just extreme culture war language that politicians and talking heads on TV promote to get attention and ratings.
At the same time I think that what @Jonas is highlighting is really that the pain of middle class Americans (admittedly mostly white due to historical reasons) is real, and needs to be addressed.
There is no question that for average citizens in the US, life has gotten a lot more difficult in the past 20 to 30 years. I grew up in a small mill town in (outside the US, but a similar western cuture) and have seen up close the devastation that globalization and āde-unionizationā has done to smaller unionized factory towns all over the Western world. When I was in high school I would work 12 hours a night every Friday night (night shift) and Saturday night and the pay in 1978 was $11/hour for cleanup work around and in the machines (this was a unionized factory). That $11/hour in 1978 money is about $52/hour in todayās money - for a kid in high school. This pay allowed me to save up for college and move the the USA.
In the USA its easy to be anti-union, especially if you are in upper management or in a professional job (as I have been most of my life); unions slows the rate of progress down in companies, and drive up costs. As Iāve gotten older, I realize now that while the ācostsā of unions are real, so are the benefits; with a higher quality of life, better opportunities for social / economic advancement for the children of union workers, etc. Iāve learned to see both sides of the issue more now.
Today the hourly pay is a fraction of what people in union jobs used to getā¦ minimum wage in the USA is around $10/hour, so people are getting paid about 20% what they used to get paid when I was a kid. How can people survive? How can kids save for college now in the US? The US given is becoming less and less an place of opportunity. And I donāt necessarily see this as a race issue (though since the USA has traditionally been the greatest percent of the population, the are likely the most impacted by this trend). All the middle-class (and lower) is suffering in the US, whatever your race or color.
Philosophically, Iām a āUtilitarianā, I think government and business should be run to provide the most benefit for the most number of people.
Todayās government is run by the few, optimizing the benefits for the few. And I see this problem with all the political parties in the US, both sides leverage a system where companies and wealthy donors pay the lobbyists (which are not legal in most western countries because its just ālegalizedā corruption), who then pay the politicians, which the politicians use to stay in power and convince people they are doing something for them, when really they are just helping themselves and their donors.
