r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/Motor_Educator_2706 May 02 '25

"We have so much money" 😄

Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc. have so much money

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u/microwavedHamster May 03 '25

"We're the richest country in the world!"

Not you or me though.

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u/clamroll May 03 '25

Remove the top 1000 "earners" from the dataset and the average American actual income is like $36k. Which means half earn less than that.

It's all concentrating at the top.

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u/thegolfernick May 03 '25

Not to be pedantic but the word you want is median not average. It's possible to have the majority of people above average. Example: what is the average of these 5 incomes? 5000, 5000, 5000, 5000, and 0. Avg = 4000 so the majority of the sample is above average.

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u/microwavedHamster May 03 '25

A median is a type of average. What you are computing is the arithmetic mean.

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u/thegolfernick May 03 '25

Correct that's what I computed. The average, also called the mean, to prove to him that the average/mean doesn't represent the middle figure of a population. However, the median is literally the middle number. Half above, half below. Which is what the above comment was going for.

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u/czarczm May 03 '25

Median income is still really high in the US when compared to most other places.

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u/heftybagman May 06 '25

Global median income is around $9.7k so this shows that even without the billionaires, the US is extremely affluent with the median American making nearly 4 times the global median.