I remember having an aneurysm trying to explain this back when Turnbull was PM here. He said, in a press conference, that the average wage was $75k, there was

I remember having an aneurysm trying to explain this back when Turnbull was PM here. He said, in a press conference, that the average wage was $75k, there was a wave of lukewarm takes on social media along the lines of "he's lying because I don't know anyone that earns that much". I got yelled at by friends about how much of a shill I was for saying he was 100% correct, but the median wage was around $45-50k. I ended up explaining it by saying if Danny Devito wandered in a room of NBA players, the average height would still go down.