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Re:Money can buy happiness by maratd on Sunday January 12, 2014 @02:43PM (#7047147)
> There are relatively few people with incomes that high

The chart is of household income, not individual income. There are plenty of households who break that mark.

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Re:Money can buy happiness by randomdata on Sunday January 12, 2014 @03:06PM (#7047226)
If we ignore many countries where $128K+ is quite rare, at least. In the US, about 14% of the households earn that much or more. However, the breakdown is more interesting here: Only ~1% of households in the US earn between $125-130K, compared to ~5% earning between $35-40K. The groups do become quite a bit less representative as you climb the income scale.
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