Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay

What source are you using that adjusts for productivity when reporting real wages? Real is defined as inflation adjusted only.

>Assuming you use the example rich demographic I gave, what would be an example scenario that systemically breaks the 1:1 ratio?

>Say if you are really rich, your personal consumer basket that defines your personal purchasing power (and your personal inflation) will be dominated by expensive luxury items and investments while regular food/medical price increases will not impact you at all because they are a small part of the basket. However if your "demographic" (that has similar personal consumer basket) wage increases there is nothing to stop the price increase on such goods.

You're assuming perfectly inelastic supply, among other things. If there's elasticity, then additional money will result in some additional supply of luxury goods and greater quantity demanded.

Also, investments != purchases. Investments are a decision to defer consumption to the future.

Think about fast food and the damage it's doing. All this money, metals and resources and all those people could be paid to deliver better healthcare, educate people, etc while people could just prepare their own food instead.

I can't count the times I was called either a communist, a moocher, a parasite, an euro-something, etc I'm so jaded from this subject. Sometimes I'm scared that the government might try and find new tricks or excuse to not give me welfare, because I'm certain the public opinion would not have any trouble in seeing me homeless.

Misguided economic policies stem from some form of cultural, subjective ideology. I still have to be convinced why it's the government's role to push people to go back to work, instead of just giving them the bare minimum so they can eat and find shelter. The amount of money you need for welfare is ridiculously low compared to the advantage it allows. We're just scared of moochers and people having free time.

And even if I'm wrong, it's not like governments will force people to work or continue to let large-scale homelessness happen. The idea of everyone-for-himself is completely the opposite of our species: we're a social society, and civilization needs to help everyone because it's in the interest of all countries. Until we're able to question the "we need workers for civilization to function" meme, nothing will improve.

I cannot count how many times I rant about this. I can already hear the pedantic, rational people explaining how I'm stealing their taxes.

I'm sorry, but that's not how it works.

For example only 1 in 4 breast cancers are attributed globally to risk factors (i.e genetics or environment)? [1]

Since you're bringing it up, I know a things or two about cancer, my father worked in health care, in pulmonary oncology, my mother worked in health care too, in infective diseases, most of my family is tied to Italian public health care, my aunts and uncles worked for it, our family best friends worked there, one of their children and one of my best friends is now a geneticist and is researching rare disease (some types of cancers among the others).

If it was simply about environment and genetics, looking at the numbers, one would assume that in Africa or India they have a very resilient genetic pool and the best environment in the World and in USA they've got some serious problem [2] [3].

Of course that's not the entire story, in those places people don't develop cancer because they die for many other (curable) diseases before cancer gets them.

So what makes survival rates so high in the US?

Well, this Forbes article [4] explains it quite well: overtreating.

But at what price? (not talking about raw monetary value here)

Cancer insurgence is tightly related to aging [5], I've brought up the example of Italy because it's the second oldest population in the World on average after Japan.

And we know that the best cure for cancer is (still) avoiding it.

We have a system here that tries to prevent cancer: women are called in for regular check ups for a number of diseases (including breast cancer), men are checked regularly for prostatic cancer when they are 40 or older and its for free.

Companies, by law, have to send their employees to regular check ups every five years.

I have high blood pressure, I have to attend mandatory check ups every year, because I am more at risk than the others.

It's all paid by the Company.

Would you prefer to develop breast cancer and have a 90% chance of survival or not develop it at all?

Breast cancer is by far the most common type of cancer for women [6] and it has high levels of survival rates in all the western World [7].

What's particularly controversial about the way US counts average survival rates is that they also count breast cancer in situ, which is not a try cancer, but it's used to inflate breast cancer statistics [8]

One statistics is particularly interesting, despite the fact that since the 90s sales of cigarettes per adult per day dropped dramatically and are among the lowest in the west [9] the share of cancer deaths attributed to tobacco is still pretty (alarmingly) high [10].

What's really important in cancer prevention and cure is that globally the chances of going back to an average life expectancy is rising, not only the survival rate after 5 years. In Italy 25% of cancer patients can expect to go back to a normal life, I haven't found the numbers relative to USA.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-cancer-deaths-at...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-with-...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates?tab=ma...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/13/why-the-us-has...

[5] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-with-...

[6] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-with-...

[7] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/five-year-survival-rates-...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancer_mortality_rates...

[9] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sales-of-cigarettes-per-a...

[10] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-cancer-deaths-at...