• stinky@redlemmy.com
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    16 hours ago

    right. yeah. we know. and how many Americans have a 6-digit salary? It’s not “more than half”.

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      keep in mind that a married couple can combine incomes.

      it’d be damn hard to afford a mortgage on your own but two people can make it work quite comfortably

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        it’s possible, with the GDP we have right now, for every single american to afford a home. Americans have been propagandized into thinking that we need a billionaire class, that they need bailouts and tax cuts and no oversight, that they should be able to get away with murder in the courts, more than they need a safe place to rest their heads at night. My heart is broken for them. I wish everyone were as angry as me.

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      15 hours ago

      also the average is going to lean cheap rural. cities are all going to be above this and major cities majorly more.

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        15 hours ago

        It would be nice to be able to review their methodology. Averages are often pointless metrics. They don’t even hint at how they arrived at ‘typical.’

        Edit: My bad. They define typical as $418,489.