I feel a lot of people take dental health for granted. But in poor areas, losing all your teeth is just considered part of life. More people will be in the poor category if we have an explosion of dental disease driving up dental services demand.
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It’s a never ending feedback loop for sure. I live in one of those parts of the country. This is one area where a return to sound money will help. When there are no longer financial incentives to poison the water supply with fluoride and make fake, processed foods, dental health will only improve as a result. I fundamentally believe that a lot of poor people have been kept poor because of the chronic poison they’re exposed to, whether that’s in the water or at the grocery store. Having equal weights and measures on a bitcoin standard will finally allow people to pull themselves out of poverty if they choose to work hard
I think we will go through a generation of “British teeth” for middle to upper middle class folks before sound money fixes all the perverse incentives.