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In today's New York Times on-line, I read an article saying that financial statistics from 2004 has just been made public. In particular, the mean and median incomes, as well as the median net worth, caught my eye. In a society that has such a skewed wealth distribution, the difference between the mean income (about $70k in 2004) and the median (about $43k) says quite a bit.
In any case, the numbers geek in me got together with the Anarchist and formulated the poll below. Basically, I am interested in the wealth distribution of my friends, compared to the national average. If you can, please compare your wealth and net worth from 2004 to the statistics released from 2004. If you don't remember that far back, go for your current values. Out of respect for privacy, I have made the poll answerable by all and results are visible to none. When the answers are all in, I will publicly mention only the final results (i.e., no personal data will be mentioned). Furthermore, if you want to answer but have privacy issues with me, feel free to log out and take the poll anonymously. Personally, I think that the social taboo against discussing income mainly serves the wealthy and does nothing to benefit the working class; however, I do acknowledge that such a taboo exists and my poll is breaking it.
And, that said, here is the poll in question:
[Poll #679145]
In any case, the numbers geek in me got together with the Anarchist and formulated the poll below. Basically, I am interested in the wealth distribution of my friends, compared to the national average. If you can, please compare your wealth and net worth from 2004 to the statistics released from 2004. If you don't remember that far back, go for your current values. Out of respect for privacy, I have made the poll answerable by all and results are visible to none. When the answers are all in, I will publicly mention only the final results (i.e., no personal data will be mentioned). Furthermore, if you want to answer but have privacy issues with me, feel free to log out and take the poll anonymously. Personally, I think that the social taboo against discussing income mainly serves the wealthy and does nothing to benefit the working class; however, I do acknowledge that such a taboo exists and my poll is breaking it.
And, that said, here is the poll in question:
[Poll #679145]
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