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THE INEQUALITY GAP IS TAKING ITS MORE OF A TOLL THAN YOU THOUGHT -- You might want to trade in your echo chamber (of doom) and take a closer look.
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The life you can pay for as one of the well-heeled anointed looks nothing like the lot tossed to everyone else: living in a home you own on some upscale cul-de-sac with your hybrid car and organic, grass-fed food sure beats renting (and driving) wrecks and subsisting on processed junk from supermarket shelves. But there’s a related, looming inequity so brutal it could provoke violent class war: the growing gap between the longevity haves and have-nots.

NOTE: I just moved from out of a neighborhood with a life expectancy 5 years lower than the one I'm in now. I've had two hybrid cars, eat organic food, live in a new green healthy home, have health insurance 'up the wazoo,' oh yea that PhD, and more.
You can hate me, come up with one of those rationalizations I hear so often from students ("It doesn't matter how much you make") but the question I have is, when are you going to do something about the growing inequity that has you in its sights? Young and old all around us are getting involved, even if it means a tiny slice of activism, like voting, getting more informed or joining an organization that really (and I mean REALLY) represents your self-interest. 
http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/will-new-drugs-mean-the-rich-live-to-120-and-the-poor-die-at-60/