re: #193 sagehen

Median isn’t average — concentrating the money all at one end could give a misleading average, but not median. Median is half the people make more, half the people make less.

(walmart employees earn an average of $12.50/hour!! Because there’s four Waltons taking home over a billion a year each. Walmart employees’ median pay is less than $9/hr.)

I think what get’s hinky is how we think of poverty. We do have to grade countrys on the curve.

Wealthy countries—“developed”— have NO EXCUSE for allowing children to be homeless. The NYT story about Dasani should be a huge wake-up call.

I would gladly give or do what ever it takes to stop this. Sadly, I have a feeling it wouldn’t be that much when divided by all the taxpayers. Yet there are those who insist on interjecting their version of morality into the mix —justifying their insensitivity and greed.