 Dones
join:2008-02-14
Toronto, ON | reply to IsItDoneYet
Re: To be 1% in Canada is to make $201,000 I know. It's $506,000 in the states. |
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 Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
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1 edit | said by Dones:I know. It's $506,000 in the states. Which means what? It's an average, and a highly misleading statistic, because there is a very small number of people making obscenely large amounts of money. The US has one of the worst income inequalities in the industrialized world (look up "Gini coefficient"). The top 6% make about a third of all income, and the upper middle class makes most of the rest. Less than 2% of the population makes over $250K. The median income for men -- a much more telling statistic than the average -- was only about $45K in 2007, and the median income per household member over the age of 14 was $26K.
One of the most important measures of the strength of a society, its peacefulness, and the happiness of its members, is the relative lack of extreme income disparity. Be glad you live in Canada. I know I am.
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Dones
join:2008-02-14
Toronto, ON | I agree. I'd much rather live here where there's more income equality (tell that to the teabaggers lol). It's just when you compare our average with our only neighbour, it's pretty low. I know there are people making hundreds of millions over there so averages don't really mean much. |
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Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | reply to Wolfie00
said by Wolfie00:One of the most important measures of the strength of a society, its peacefulness, and the happiness of its members, is the relative lack of extreme income disparity. Be glad you live in Canada. I know I am.
Not so sure. Denmark has the most equality of income based on World Bank Gini: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co···ity#List
But they are at 105 out of 143 in the Happiness Index: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Plan···_ranking
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kudos:5 | As with many things that are hard to quantify and subject to a wide array of variables like cultural factors, it’s not always going to be an ironclad or perfect correlation -- but it's there...
»www.livescience.com/14638-income···ess.html |
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