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You could have basically just bezos and then thousands of workers working for free and the average wage would still look pretty good. Just because the elites a
by theelous3 6y ago
You could have basically just bezos and then thousands of workers working for free and the average wage would still look pretty good.
Just because the elites are paid insane sums, doesn't mean the majority are making anything reasonable.
Edit: I miss read and you have median. Fair enough. 35k usd is still terrible pay though, and I'd rather work somewhere that doesn't have 12 hour shifts for that semi ok pay. Can work elsewhere half as hard for the same money or better. Won't pass out from heat exhaustion, won't he fired for trying to unionize, won't have covid pay taken back, won't be denied safe working conditions in a pandemic, etc.
- tathougies 6y agoHe used median, not average. The median is significantly less affected by the highest wages. That's basic math.
- xdavidliu 6y agojust to make your point even stronger, the median is not affected by the highest wages _at all_.
- MattGaiser 6y agoThere is a reason I used "median."
- wlesieutre 6y agoThat's why parent comment uses the median rather than the mean, it isn't affected by enormous outliers. Unless more than half of Amazon's employees are highly paid developers and executives, that number represents a normal employee.