Money isn’t everything but with no money at all, there isn’t much left
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rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Unfortunately, you do need money for like 2/3rds of those
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t win life because you have more toys than the other guy
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
But you do lose for not being able to afford bare necessities
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
you know nothing of loss if that is your baseline
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
…
Did you literally just use “there are fates worse than death” as some kind of comeback to someone saying that not being able afford necessities leads to “losing” (death), implying that a society that allows this to occur should change?
What are you saying? That people not being able to feed and/or house themselves is fine, because there are worse kinds of “loss”?
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s not my take on the image above, that’s my response to OP’s comment. But feel free to take that out of context if it helps you sleep at night
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s almost as poetic as it is meaningless
thisfro@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Some money yes, but an average salary should work for all of them, no?
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
“Average” is a vague definition
zeca@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
neither vague nor a definition
average is the sum of a list of values divided by the size of the list.
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Well, if you look at the average salary across the whole world, an overwhelming majority of people doesn’t make enough money to survive, so there’s that
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.
Average
noun
- a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
The term average, inherently refers to three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median.
thisfro@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I was under the impression mean and average were used interchangeably, but I’m not a native speaker.
What I meant was mean salary indeed. But median would probably be more adequate.
Earflap@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Not in America
thisfro@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
For what of the list?
It also depends on the definition of each, but I mean in a basic sense.
passepartout@feddit.org 1 month ago
And people for the other 1/3.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
And how do you buy people if not with money
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 1 month ago
where are you buying your people?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Let’s just say it isn’t as easy as it used to be