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Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% by umeshunni on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:28PM (#21277716)
> the median incomes are between 60-65K

The median income, for a college graduate, nationally is >$90K. A lot of the median income stats are meaningless once you consider only the educated slices of the workforce.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

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Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% by claudeganon on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:34PM (#21277747)
Close to 2/3 of Americans over 25 don’t have college degrees, so how is that meaningless? The educated slices of the workforce aren’t the majority and we’re talking about income inequality generally.
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Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% by MR4D on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:53PM (#21278526)
Interesting. Seems like education inequality given the (implied) causation.
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Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% by cannonedhamster on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @09:30PM (#21278116)
Yeah just get rid of all those people not making money and the stats all align with your preconceived notion. Brilliant!
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