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If the 1% class leans strongly right wing, the average income doesn’t really tell you much about the highly paid middle class (or even “lower paid” upper class) as incomes are not normally distributed & you’ve got significant skew (1 billion will make more difference on the mean than $0).


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Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Look at dragonwriter's post where he explains more clearly why averages are meaningless in this discussion.

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