• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Yeah… the Median individual income is only 45k. So it kinda depends if the 70k threshold was accounting for household or single. If it’s just a single income then around 75% of Americans would not make it to the top 10%.

    Household income is kinda a skewed way to evaluate income, especially considering that a lot of households do not share expenses equally. Younger generations could have 5 roommates and not make the 85k median.