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   by notabee 9y ago

   The link you provided shows percentile by household, not individual. Just clicking on the link on that page to go to individual brackets, suddenly 63% drops to 50,000/yr. That's not a terrible salary, but as expenses have gone up
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   by notabee 9y ago

   The IPCC scenarios, which are already grim, also include hypothetical forms of carbon capture that do not yet exist, in addition to drastic emission reduction, to prevent the Earth from becoming a disaster in the next 50/100 years. Thi
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   by notabee 9y ago

   Here's just a passing figure for starters: 63% of Americans can't handle a $500 or $1000 emergency expense. Now, if you're willing to actually enquire into this there are plenty of additional dismal statistics about average A
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   by notabee 9y ago

   Social workers do this very thing, at least in the U.S. Unfortunately it's a poorly paid role that requires a lot of educational investment and is excruciatingly difficult and depressing. So to continue your encapsulation metaphor, ima
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   by notabee 9y ago

   It probably costs something near to that in the U.S. in emergency medical costs, incarceration, and other civil services to deal with the problem, except we won't try to get them rehab help or preventative care because...bootstraps or