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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 26 Mar 2019
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    “Here's a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average.” Currently trending news article; no citation because I don’t like rewarding evil. This sentence was intentionally crafted to make an audience hate someone to maximize ad revenue.

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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 26 Mar 2019
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        There is a genre of articles like that, and the writers and editors of it know what they’re doing, or in the alternative they are sufficiently responsive to the incentives of viral spread that the system knows what it is doing even if the actuators of it do not.

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      2. Christine Price‏ @PstafarianPrice 26 Mar 2019
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        Thank you. The responses to it have been unempathetic and gross. The website that spawned the spreadsheet is actually good; I've read a number of articles there previously. It is something that is actually worth linking.https://www.financialsamurai.com/scraping-by-on-500000-a-year-high-income-earners-struggling/ …

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      3. Jack Golding‏ @goldingolding 26 Mar 2019
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        Thanks for sharing

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      1. Xiaohan Zhang‏ @justxiaohan 26 Mar 2019
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        Equally as egregious - it's a repost of a year old article that was a repost of a two year old article

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      2. Sonic Cruiser‏ @Sonic_Cruise 26 Mar 2019
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        It's called middle class inflation and taxation. These are the ppl lugging around all the cost overhead that is govt. The super rich pay no tax. The poor pay no tax either.

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      3. Mike Morton‏ @theycallmemorty 26 Mar 2019
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        $500k/year is middle class? Middle class inflation indeed...

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      1. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 26 Mar 2019
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        It's the "man-bites-dog" counter-intuitive hook construction. The staple that all (?) media and news run on to drive attention and ad spend.

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      1. James Bach  🎶 🎷 🐛‏ @qweety_ 26 Mar 2019
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        the clickbait is so obvious it's painful :////

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      1. Eric w/ one wild life‏ @MutualArising 26 Mar 2019
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        Article is meaningless as well - could talk about hedonic treadmill, human tendency to compare up instead of down, whether they are "average" among neighborhood or not, diminishing returns on wealth or 20 other actually interesting topics that look at happiness && income

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      1. Philip I. Thomas‏ @philipithomas 26 Mar 2019
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        My read: Nobody can argue that they underpay on taxes - AMT works 🤷‍♂️

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