Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor
by bluGill on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:56PM
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Of course. If you want to play games with numbers you can make them say anything you want. To reach the top 10% you need just over $100,000 in income. That isn't rich in most people's book, though it is upper middle class.
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Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor
by JohnFen on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:29PM
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> That isn't rich in most people's book
Depending on the part of the nation you're talking about. In much of the nation, exceeding 100k makes you unambiguously wealthy. In other areas, you'd have a hard time living anything more than a squarely middle class lifestyle on that.
It's not about "playing games", it's that economic conditions vary so wildly across the nation that you can't accurately characterize what's "rich" and "poor" using the same scale everywhere.
That's why I say that determining "rich" and "poor" is a difficult thing to do.