• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    How much money do you think the median American takes home these days with cost of living and suppressed wages? -2000 in credit card debt once the budget gets tallied?

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        1 day ago

        Umm do you want to break those numbers down for the bottom 75% or earners? Or the median? I believe that is just the billionaire holding up the statistic that the Fed is presenting. Also, those numbers were in billions representing the whole country not an individual in thousands……

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          I’d expect the Chinese numbers to be way more skewed than the US ones. Too bad we can’t rely on their statistics.

          Either way, both numbers are for the average. The US one is for September, when it was still reliable; the Chinese one is certainly a gross overestimation, but for December, and we don’t know if it moved up or down from there yet.

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            11 hours ago

            My aunt and uncle went on a state sponsored trip and got the impression that they have a stronger middle class than we do. From what I can piece together I’d tend to agree. But ya I guess we’ll know for sure with more hindsight.

            Gotta love the two biggest economy’s in the world and you can’t find/trust good data