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tried to plot this for australia and this sure tells a story huh
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RT @jburnmurdoch
2) It’s actually worse than that chart made out, because at most points on the income distribution, Americans earn much more than Brits.

If we plot the same data by actual income instead of percentile, the US deficit is vast.

5 fewer years even among the comfortably-off. t.co/ssffHKqbLv
twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/statu

sorry i had to scale the dots by population, can't have you thinking we're *too* poor

sorry i had to scale the dots by population, can't have you thinking we're *too* poor; they range from like 40k to 800k

sorry i had to scale the dots by population, can't have you thinking we're *too* poor; resolution is not great but they range from like 40k to 800k

(in case you couldn't guess the half dozen dots off the main sequence are very remote/outback areas with high indigenous population)

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