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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N US is ~$41k for an individual and this includes 14/15 year ol
by soared 3y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
US is ~$41k for an individual and this includes 14/15 year olds.
- ZoomZoomZoom 3y agoGreat, this supports my point. You can count income in many ways and the data here is probably fresher than what I could find in a half-minute search. USA is just right after the Luxembourg and the number is still just 62% of the 66k mentioned above.
- zmgsabst 3y agoMedian household income is $74k/yr in the US. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27... I don’t think “both people have to work, to be average” counts as “rich”.
- ZoomZoomZoom 3y agoThere's a couple of oversights in your argument. 1. I can bet an average household in the US is > 2 people (google says 3.13). The threshold in question is for personal income. 2. The context of the whole discussion is global, so comparisons made from a perspective of a citizen of one of the richest countries in the world don't really fly.