I was trying to say causality goes both ways between “being rich” and “living longer”.

Of course there is a chasm. There are also mass murders of towns and villages on the Syrian coast right now, with the EU having reacted swiftly by condemning the victims, and the US having reacted only in words and proceeding to bomb Yemeni houthis with means more than enough to stop those mass murders.

There are storms, and there are still times, and there are times of abundance and of hunger.