I guess the lesson here is don't trust unsourced factual claims in political memes because they are probably just made up

Yeah, these numbers don't make sense.

To explain the first panel alone, by removing the top ten earners from the data set, you'd move the median to.the lower end by 5 "slots". I'm confident that there are more than 100 people in the USA who make between $65k and $75k (I know at least 25).

If they mean the average/mean, that still doesn't add up. Assuming that the US population is about 350 million and that 350,000,000 - 10 ~= 350 million.

NGL, formatting the equations and walking then out step by step is a pain, esp on mobile, but the answer I came to is by multiplying the difference in mean values (~$10,000) by the US Population (350 million), which yields $300,000,000,000 or about 10 billion per person once evenly distributed.

Elon Musk (2nd richest man in the world at time of writing) has a net worth of less than $5 billion rn, but the numbers here imply that the top earners in the US made at least 60x that amount.

TL;DR: I'mma need some sources on this.

Edit: on my app (Voyager/Wefwef) I can't save draft comments to go look at the meme while commenting, so definitely have some things off from.what the meme was saying, but they're close enough I'm leaving as it.

Also, spelling/grammar

Yeah, I thought that seemed a little far fetched

But I think this is only about wages right? It doesn’t take into account growth in net worth based on shares, does it?

Maybe more than 2 when you add in the children!

Or don't. Worst kind of food poisoning. Bioreactors are safer.

Median is the middle point of the population and has its place when the range doesn't skew too much. I think a good representation of income is by percentages, as in "90% of people make $x,000 or below". This chart had dated (2010) data but its a better representation than I've found elsewhere

Nah there's no way this is accurate.

5k if you're single. 3.5k if you're married. In PA at least. Not sure where you live but your numbers seem extreme.

What? The world's richest people are not in the 1,5 billion dollars range. They are in the 200-100 billion dollars. And it would be surprising if they didn't earn 150 million just from owning this amount of wealth each year.

You say this as if it's accidental

very disinfectant mistakes

I'm staring at this trying to figure out if autocorrect did you wrong and if it did, what was it originally

PS: A very disinfectant mistake

the mode is probably 0.

e.g. there are plenty of people with exactly 0 income. there are few people with exactly another income.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/

Keep in mind that household income really means 2 income sources, not average American income