From the book: Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Hardcover – by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Everybody dies.
Wealthy can’t avoid death, data tells us that they can now delay it. American women in the top 1 percent of income live, on average, ten years longer than American women in the bottom 1 percent of income. For men, the gap is fifteen years. Interestingly, for the wealthiest Americans, life expectancy is hardly affected by where they live. If you have excesses of money, you can expect to make it roughly eighty-nine years as a woman and about eighty-seven years as a man. Rich people everywhere tend to develop healthier habits—on average, they exercise more, eat better, smoke less, and are less likely to suffer from obesity. Rich people can afford the treadmill, the organic avocados, the yoga classes. And they can buy these things in any corner of the United States
If you don’t want to save for retirement, or your kid’s college, or for emergencies, how about you sock away some extra dough – just to LIVE longer.
Earn more and then save more.
The more you save, the more wealthy you become and therefore you can develop better habits and LIVE.
I hope that is enough motivation for you.
-Jared S. Friedman
