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More about wealth

Oct 28, 2008 11:58

Okay, so in this breakdown of US household incomes, we learn that the median household income in the US is around $50,000, and a household income of at least $100k puts you in the top 19.26% of households. I think it's fair to say that the top fifth of earners would be rich. If you have to make $250,000 to be rich, then only the top 1.5% of ( Read more... )

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For the love of... ormondsacker October 29 2008, 02:42:02 UTC

Okay, livejournal just ate a three-paragraph giganto-comment. To sum up, what froggirl said, it'll get better. Also, if there weren't an insane number of social strictures and mores and such forbidding it, you could totally have some of my dollars.

Re: For the love of... lola_granola October 29 2008, 13:49:47 UTC

That's sweet. I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not quite to the point of taking on long-distance sugar-daddies. Yet.

Re: For the love of... ormondsacker October 30 2008, 03:25:01 UTC

It pisses me off, though, 'cause I did the time living in a $240 apartment with a fold-out bed and ate ramen and got pulled over for skin-color inspection. Now that I have as much cash as covers the immediate luxuries, why can't I just throw checks at people? You over there, you seem sad, have dollars! Stupid non-communistic-utopian society.

Re: For the love of... lola_granola October 30 2008, 16:19:59 UTC

I don't know that people really have a problem with it. I think if you wanted to pick one person (not me) who you know needs money and give them, say, $100 a month, that would be fine. It's not like you'd go around advertising it, and I think those who did know would be supportive.

Re: For the love of... ormondsacker October 31 2008, 03:46:58 UTC

Ah, okay. See, I would have to disagree there. In my experience, "you should totally give charity to other people (not me)" is one of those universal human sentiments on the level of "baby ducks are cute" or "I would rather not be on fire". This seems dumb to me, but there it is - an actual offer of monies, as opposed to a generalized expression of financial sympathy, is a pretty decent social compact violation and should be avoided. Which is stupid. I blame capitalism.

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