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mplanchard • today at 2:04 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Average, or median? Don’t know the answer offhand, but there are a small number of well-known people who are likely to skew the average quite a bit upward, given how much wealth they accumulated during and since covid


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fasterik • today at 2:46 AM

I was using "average person" in the informal sense. Median household income in the U.S., adjusted for inflation, has gone up 13% in the past decade.