Godric@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoNow that's some devotion!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square355fedilinkarrow-up12.02Karrow-down129
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minus-squareSotuanduso@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year ago mostly white men who make over $50k a year. https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/ About 60% of American households cross that threshold. It kinda comes off like you’re saying people who make that much are overprivileged.
minus-squareKushan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoI suspect his information is out of date, $50k isn’t a lot of money but 10 or 20 years ago it was.
minus-squareuberkalden@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoWas it? I made that out of college almost 20 years ago. It wasn’t what I would call rich
minus-squareIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYes, it was. If it helps, $50K then would be $81K today. The average minimum wage these days across the US is $8.5 an hour, or $17K per year. So it is… it absolutely is. Even today it is quite a lot to many people.
minus-squarekn0wmad1c@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThis chart bothers me because the y-axis is all over the place in terms of range. Sometimes it’s $15k range, sometimes it’s $30k, sometimes it’s $50k. Really skews the data.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/
About 60% of American households cross that threshold. It kinda comes off like you’re saying people who make that much are overprivileged.
I suspect his information is out of date, $50k isn’t a lot of money but 10 or 20 years ago it was.
Was it? I made that out of college almost 20 years ago. It wasn’t what I would call rich
Yes, it was. If it helps, $50K then would be $81K today. The average minimum wage these days across the US is $8.5 an hour, or $17K per year.
So it is… it absolutely is. Even today it is quite a lot to many people.
This chart bothers me because the y-axis is all over the place in terms of range. Sometimes it’s $15k range, sometimes it’s $30k, sometimes it’s $50k. Really skews the data.