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You may want to update your idea about what is a medium wage worker: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-

• pedrosorio 5y ago
  I am well aware $200k is nowhere near the median wage. The person I replied to wrote “How is anyone ever supposed to climb the ladder like that?”. Seeing as no one is “climbing the ladder” from earning a median wage their whole life, I looked at the tax rate for an “upper middle” wage salary (which anyone can earn even if their parents had 0 wealth). Since tax rates for a median salary are much lower than this, I am not sure how it contradicts my point.