Tell me up front what you really mean. That there are a lot of rich people in DC, the center of government? There's a lot of them in Manhattan, too, the center of commerce. And there's a lot of poor people in both. Urban areas tend to have higher incomes, too. That's why people move there. I don't need interactive maps to tell me that. In fact, any bum living in a cardboard box over a subway grate is already painfully aware of it.
The median is a good statistic to tell you how many people are above and below a certain level, it doesn't tell you by how much. And it doesn't tell you how it has changed over recent time. That's what seems to bounce off you.
I suspect that map would unfold very differently if it were not the median it was displaying, but the average. The ratio between median and average is especially instructive. If the two are not relatively close together, then the society is fundamentally dysfunctional. And it is fundamentally unjust.
Current Events » in reply to Re: Geographical distribution is interesting, but tells you little.
Don't be coy.
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- Where the money is
- Well, it's not here. I just looked around.
- Interesting thread
- Objection: assumes facts not in evidence.
- Did you read all the links?
- I scanned that piece. It does not establish what you claim is established in this thread.
- I'd rather design harmonica holders than discuss Aztec anthropology.
- Did you read all the links?
- Objection: assumes facts not in evidence.
- Money is meaningless.
- Wealth is concentrated in the states that you claim have hatred for business. Amazing.
- I'll take military/industrial/surveillance complex for $500 billion
- Geographical distribution is interesting, but tells you little.