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How half the US lost part of their minds (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/videos@lemmy.world
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Answer: lead. It's still lead and it's still fucking us all up.

Not just Americans, in all likelihood every single person reading this has been effected by lead. It's gonna take a very very long time before the effects become negligible.

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

TL;DW Lead makes you lose intelligence and your life more difficult. Gen X got the worst of it. And yes it's backed up with research and was largely caused by capitalism.

Edit: screenshot of graph that shows the gen x part

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  • [+] [S] -15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Gen X got the worst of it.

    What?

    Did you literally not watch it and trying to summarize?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    usually, TL;DW is for people who dont want to watch the video at the moment, but are still curious about it

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It also usually accurately summarizes the video rather than misinterpreting it...

    The video say it's older millennials, people around 40ish. But explicitly states multiple times that economics is the greatest predictor of exposure.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    “GenX was hit the hardest” is a direct quote from the video, timecode 17:02

    Yes there is more than just that one quote to consider, but what are you doing saying it wasn’t in the video?

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