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>But in 1980 10% of the population had degrees, that is now >50%. So this is a dramatic increase in wealth for everyone. The poor are less poor, and there are f
by lowbloodsugar 5y ago
>But in 1980 10% of the population had degrees, that is now >50%. So this is a dramatic increase in wealth for everyone. The poor are less poor, and there are fewer of them.
You aren't providing any data about the other 40% of the population who now have degrees. We only know that the bottom 10% got worse. Do you have any data to claim that the 40% had a "dramatic" increase in wealth? Got some data for the claim "dramatic increase in wealth for everyone"?
- mjburgess 5y agoThe bottom 10% didn't get worse. No one got worse. Everyone is wealthier. What happened is that the category "men w/o degrees" comprises a different percentile of society. If you did everything by percentiles, rather than statistical categories, it would be obvious. Every percentile is wealthier. The data is widely available: https://ourworldindata.org/ https://ourworldindata.org/ . The general increase in wealth is extraordinary and unprecedented in human history for all of society. Dispoable income, since 1980, has increased 400% , https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/disposable-personal-income https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/disposable-person... . One imagines that the reasons articles like this trade in made-up statistical categories is that any straightforward analysis would reveal this; as it is overwhelming.
- lowbloodsugar 5y agoYour first site looks credible, but you don't link to data. Your second site provides data about the combined disposable income of the entire population, which I don't think anyone is arguing about. Do you have any data that supports your claim that inflation adjusted disposable income has increased for everyone?