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RealWarrenBuffett@lemm.ee to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 years ago

The average U.S. household net worth hit a million dollars

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RealWarrenBuffett@lemm.ee to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • wia@lemmy.ca
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    The median is 192,700. Billionaires have so much wealth they skew the average by over 800, 000.

    • Chais@sh.itjust.works
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      Was gonna ask that question. Thanks.

  • cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world
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    That is really interesting to me. So they add up all the household wealth and divide it by the number of households and the result is a million per household. We would all be millionaires if it were spread out evenly.

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      They should include median for context, since the ultra wealthy really skew the numbers.

      • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
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        Like, one of the first sentences includes the median…it’s $192k.

        • snooggums@kbin.social
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          I meant in the headline, but should have said it out old.

    • Szymon@lemmy.ca
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      You may want to have a word with Ellen Monk about your share in their bank account. Pronouns withheld to not assume their gender.

      • cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world
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        We could always print a fuckton of dollars and hand them out to people evenly. Then we wouldn’t need to touch his accounts. Prices would skyrocket but you could just invent a new, larger unit of currency equal to x number of dollars

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
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    And yet the average household can’t afford a major health crisis, or a house, or to retire.

  • duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Now what’s the median

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    So if we eat the rich we could all be millionaires. bridget-smug

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    This is misleading clickbait.

    • DarkenLM@kbin.social
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      Well, they are statically correct. The average stand around a million. If we take a look at the quartiles, the median stands around 192,700, as a comment above said.

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    Meaningless. Whats the median

    • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
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      Literally one of the first things in the article…$192k.

    • itsprobablyfine@feddit.uk
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      Not meaningless. Its a great indicator of wealth inequality

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    LMFAO. Maybe today should just be my last day, because everything is just constantly worse and worse.

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    And now that without the zop 0,1%

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