{"id":2272,"date":"2011-11-05T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2011-11-05T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:44:45","slug":"6-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2011\/11\/6-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"6%"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wealth disparity in the U.S. Image excerpted from this infographic<\/a> about Occupy Wall Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>TGF<\/acronym> is a bit of a data geek and she’s turning me into a bit of a data geek. This is not a bad thing necessarily.<\/p>\n

So, that job I hate? Yeah…according to figures from the Census Bureau for 2010<\/a>, and according to this handy calculator based on those figures<\/a>, it puts me in the top 6% of earners in the United States.<\/p>\n

How is that even possible? Given the imbalance in weath distribution in this country and given the fact that my skills are of no real, practical value (seriously, in a survival economy knowing how plumbing works rates a lot higher than understanding website Information Architecture), what does that say in my little microcosm about how things are for most people in the U.S. ?<\/p>\n

These figures stun and scare me and I don’t know what do to about them. Impoverishing myself won’t help the masses, and it’s become abudantly clear after nearly 7 months in the Fed that change from the inside is not possible.<\/p>\n

Something’s got to give, though. I just don’t know what.<\/p>\n

 
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