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The median personal income in the US, including all ages, is 30k per year. You're the one being a coastal elite here if you think the advice in this article isn

by cm2012 8y ago

The median personal income in the US, including all ages, is 30k per year. You're the one being a coastal elite here if you think the advice in this article isn't helpful to the average person.

suff 8y ago
OK, so when they have a section titled "San Francisco is not for you", you pay attention, you read the programming, you accept it as truth, and then you work until you are 73. YMMV. Good for you. Good luck.
onlyrealcuzzo 8y ago
Suff's comment, at best, is humble bragging. I found it pretty disgusting, to be honest. Implying that the ordinary person has the opportunity to make more than another person's entire family is -- by it's nature -- a joke. You can't be anywhere near average and make more earn more than 3+ average people. Using a normal distribution, that puts you a MINIMUM of 3 standard deviations above average -- literally the 0.1%. Using the actual income distribution (since it's distinctively NOT normal) -- it puts you in the top 2%. But if you actually work for a living (as opposed to collect returns on investments), it's likely in the top 0.1%. A state senator is likely to be above average -- as are family members. In general, we don't strive to elect average. We strive to elect excellence. Maybe it was meant to be a pep-talk. But just because one person dropped out of school and did well, doesn't mean that everyone can do the same. Maybe the OP is a genius. If not, he got lucky. And not everyone can be a genius or lucky.
- suff 8y ago
  Being intentionally vague about income metrics by diffusing it among a population. State senator salaries are publicly available, so really more than anything making the point that I'm not some keyboard warrior making $1 over the median wage, trying to give advice. Hopefully it comes across as useful to some. Apologies for my lack of context.

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The median personal income in the US, including all ages, is 30k per year. You're the one being a coastal elite here if you think the advice in this article isn

by cm2012 8y ago

The median personal income in the US, including all ages, is 30k per year. You're the one being a coastal elite here if you think the advice in this article isn't helpful to the average person.

suff 8y ago
OK, so when they have a section titled "San Francisco is not for you", you pay attention, you read the programming, you accept it as truth, and then you work until you are 73. YMMV. Good for you. Good luck.
onlyrealcuzzo 8y ago
Suff's comment, at best, is humble bragging. I found it pretty disgusting, to be honest. Implying that the ordinary person has the opportunity to make more than another person's entire family is -- by it's nature -- a joke. You can't be anywhere near average and make more earn more than 3+ average people. Using a normal distribution, that puts you a MINIMUM of 3 standard deviations above average -- literally the 0.1%. Using the actual income distribution (since it's distinctively NOT normal) -- it puts you in the top 2%. But if you actually work for a living (as opposed to collect returns on investments), it's likely in the top 0.1%. A state senator is likely to be above average -- as are family members. In general, we don't strive to elect average. We strive to elect excellence. Maybe it was meant to be a pep-talk. But just because one person dropped out of school and did well, doesn't mean that everyone can do the same. Maybe the OP is a genius. If not, he got lucky. And not everyone can be a genius or lucky.
- suff 8y ago
  Being intentionally vague about income metrics by diffusing it among a population. State senator salaries are publicly available, so really more than anything making the point that I'm not some keyboard warrior making $1 over the median wage, trying to give advice. Hopefully it comes across as useful to some. Apologies for my lack of context.