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41 sats \ 6 replies \ @freetx 16h
Math seems off by 10x.
The chart seems to show bottom 50% holds 25%.
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The bottom 50% is the tiny blue bit at the bottom. Orange is the 50th-90th percentile.
Remember that wealth is not the same as GDP. It's not unreasonable for it to be an order of magnitude greater.
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Lmao the fraction is so small it made the chart look wrong
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 13h
it fooled me!
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Makes me wonder now how they count negatives. Wonder what fraction of all wealth held by non negative wealth holders is the bottom 50%
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I'm guessing negatives just don't count. This is where the positive wealth is held, which would be different from comparing average net balances.
I feel like I've seen figures for the latter that would have that bottom group in the red.
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This should make more sense.
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Biden looks like one hell of a president. This should probably be normalized to the money supply.
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normalized to the money supply.
So you have any chart that shows it this way?
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I'd have to search for it, but someone's made it. The other option, which loses any sense of economic growth, is to just show the wealth composition shares.
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show wealth composition shares.
Yes this is completely innacurate.
I searched for it but didn't find any. Maybe you guys been adding it just like you see in the chart above. However, people living under so much debt in the US makes me think that it's true.
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The chart by federal reserve suggest the same but it's comprehensive.
It could be said that "the number of US people hold 2.5% of US Wealth".
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 15h
Wonder how many even save 10 dollars a week in Bitcoin. I am sure a ton of them spend 10 dollars a week on lottery tickets.
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Hardly a few because a ton of them would eat a Hotdog or Burger before giving a thought about Bitcoin.
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Bears repeating, underwhelming Bitcoin adoption is due in part to the fact that relatively few people have wealth to preserve.
Do these stats include home equity? Retirees loaded up on bonds/annuities? whole life insurance? That'd make it even darker.
It could help people get out of survival mode but they're too busy being in survival mode to parse that.
Chicken-egg problem.
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I wonder how much this is skewed by personal debt and highly negative net worths
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