• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But is it really fair that a person with 50 million can turn that into 100 million, whereas most people can turn at most $5,000 into $10,000?

    Earning $5,000 over 7 years is basically worthless.

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        1 year ago

        Using median makes it a loaded statistic skewed in favor of the minority (in this case, the wealthy).

        Over half the country is living paycheck-to-paycheck, so that median number is already in the ‘well-off’ category by default, making them irrelevant to the main point of discussion.

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          1 year ago

          You have it backwards. The mean, not the median, is skewed by outliers.

          If there are ten people in a room with $10 and one person with $1,000,000, the median is $10 whereas the mean is ~$90,000.

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          1 year ago

          You might not know what median means (math pun!).

          Averages or Means are skewed by outliers, not the median. The median is just picking the middle number in a list of numbers. There is no skewing possible. If you have 99 people making $1 per year and one person making $1B per year, the median is $1. The average/mean is $1,000,000.99 which is way skewed.

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      But is it really fair that a person with 50 million can turn that into 100 million

      Yes.

      And since that can only happen by investing that amount into the economy, it’s wisely encouraged by the system, versus putting the 50 million in a vault somewhere.

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        1 year ago

        The fact that you can’t see how this is a huge flaw in, at the very least, the American form of capitalism is sad.

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          1 year ago

          You think it’s sad because you’re deeply ignorant. Do you also think that if the $5 baseball card you bought becomes worth $100, that that means you’ve stolen $95? lol

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            1 year ago

            No, I don’t also think that.

            I do, however, think that I didn’t insult you, so that insult was absolutely not warranted.