Comment on Americans say they need to earn $186K to live comfortably — but is it enough?
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 2 months agoUh, you’re off by a factor of 10 there. Population of the US is closer 330 million, so it’d be 5.7%
Comment on Americans say they need to earn $186K to live comfortably — but is it enough?
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 2 months agoUh, you’re off by a factor of 10 there. Population of the US is closer 330 million, so it’d be 5.7%
fishpen0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh fuck me I missed that zero. Thanks, this is what I get for doing all that math on my phone scratch pad
Well, I’ll just grab the top 50 cities and it’s the same point.
The whole point is a shit load of people live in a very tiny space relative to the total size of the country as a whole. This drives online conversion around how expensive things are since online we actually interact with people from all over.