Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Razgovory]

I love these sort of deep thoughts that put our tiny little lives in perspective.

[viper37]

[grumbler]

I'm surprised that this hasn't come out before (unless I missed it). It's brilliant.

[Syt]

From reddit.

[The Minsky Moment]

Also says something when people draw an equivalence in terms of rational degrees of skepticism between one of the world's leading immunologists, and a class action lawyer who claims that his brain was half-eaten by a parasitic worm.

[Valmy]

Fauci never even said anything that out of line with what the other doctors around the world were saying did he? I never understood why he in particular became a villain.

But then I just talked to some doctors I knew personally and followed their advice, I wasn't paying much attention to what the news was saying. I suddenly had to home school a 2nd and 3rd grader.

[crazy canuck]

Fauci never even said anything that out of line with what the other doctors around the world were saying did he? I never understood why he in particular became a villain.

But then I just talked to some doctors I knew personally and followed their advice, I wasn't paying much attention to what the news was saying. I suddenly had to home school a 2nd and 3rd grader.

He became a villain when he was caught on camera laughing when Trump said something stupid.

[Josquius]

I don't know about other countries (though I'm curious. Anyone?) but in the UK our chief medical officer during covid also recieved (recieves) a lot of shit from conspiracy nuts.
I guess it's to be expected in a country where such views are more mainstream the level of insane hate would be too?

[Jacob]

So I saw a meme that claimed:

• The average income in the United States is $74,500
• Excluding the top 10 Americans it's only $65,000
• Excluding the top 50 Americans it drops to $48,000
• Excluding the top 1000, it drops to just $35,5000

Anyone know how true that is?

[The Minsky Moment]

Labor Force is 170 million
At $74,500, that is total income of 12.7 trillion

Substract 10 people out and reduce the average to $65,000.  Now the total goes down to 11.1 trillion.

Difference is about 1.6 Trillion.  That implies an average income of $161 billion per year for the top 10.

Doubt it

[Valmy]

So I saw a meme that claimed:

• The average income in the United States is $74,500
• Excluding the top 10 Americans it's only $65,000
• Excluding the top 50 Americans it drops to $48,000
• Excluding the top 1000, it drops to just $35,5000

Anyone know how true that is?

That seems unlikely as the median income is about 60,000.

[crazy canuck]

So I saw a meme that claimed:

• The average income in the United States is $74,500
• Excluding the top 10 Americans it's only $65,000
• Excluding the top 50 Americans it drops to $48,000
• Excluding the top 1000, it drops to just $35,5000

Anyone know how true that is?

That seems unlikely as the median income is about 60,000.

Thanks, that was the number I was going to look for

[grumbler]

So I saw a meme that claimed:

• The average income in the United States is $74,500
• Excluding the top 10 Americans it's only $65,000
• Excluding the top 50 Americans it drops to $48,000
• Excluding the top 1000, it drops to just $35,5000

Anyone know how true that is?

You might get something like that affect if you were going by total household wealth.  Wealth is enormously skewed in the US and getting worse every year.

[Valmy]

So I saw a meme that claimed:

• The average income in the United States is $74,500
• Excluding the top 10 Americans it's only $65,000
• Excluding the top 50 Americans it drops to $48,000
• Excluding the top 1000, it drops to just $35,5000

Anyone know how true that is?

You might get something like that affect if you were going by total household wealth.  Wealth is enormously skewed in the US and getting worse every year.

Yeah. There is a reason why people would believe that meme. It's false but it has "truthiness"

[Syt]