Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Almost NO ONE In the world makes what you're talking about, so it isn't 'common' when you look at the whole picture. 25 million out of 6 billion ain't much.
My point is that if we're limiting it to the population of ATOT, then we're talking about a set of people highly correlated with
1) a decent enough upbringing that they can afford a computer and the luxury of sitting around posting
2) college educated
3) technical degree (engineering, comp sci, IT)
4) being male
Obviously there are exceptions to the above (hence correlation), but all 4 of those boost the average salary far above the American average, let alone the world population.
I don't see why you even brought up the world pop., I don't think anyone here would consider anything outside of American wage earners as the context for "common"
1 and 4 have no appreciable correlation to what we're talking about. There are certainly plenty of welfare recipients who sit around and do nothing, thus having the time to sit around and post online. It only takes 15-30k individual income to really live ok (depending on area), so once you're earning that you can sit around posting. That's about 75% of America that can do it in case you're curious. It also means that 75% of Americans are passing on that level of upbringing to the next generations, which have already been far more likely to have an online presence than previous ones regardless of socio-economic status.
The gap between male and female earnings isn't that great now (about 16% was the most recent study I could find) and it's continuing to decline. Moreover, there are so few people at the income levels we're dealing with that their demographic makeup would have next to no impact on the evaluation - we're talking about 10% of the population...rather it's 5/5 for men and women or 7/3 you just haven't increased the odds all that much.
While there may be a correlation between the atot population and number 2 (though I haven't seen polls which show it as a high correlation) that doesn't specifically correlate to the income levels we're talking about. All of my college won't earn me more than 30-40k for instance. College makes you much more likely to earn middle incomes, but isn't any kind of guarantee to high incomes.
3, while having the potential for earnings, is severely hindered by the fact that there are so many in the field, limited jobs which are dwindling rapidly in the tanked economy, and the simple fact that there are limited jobs which can ever achieve the type of earning we're talking about regardless of education, field, or anything else. For every person with a tech degree that lands a high paying job there are probably 99 that are working help desks, or assistants, or just can't find work in their field.
There are wealthy people all over the world, not just here. Moreover there aren't only American in ATOT. If you want to limit it to America go ahead, I listed the numbers already.
MY POINT was that people are
expecting what isn't logically possible, and what the data directly contradicts. Very, very, very, very few people have any hope of an income at that level. Slightly increasing the odds through the correlations you attempt won't make any significant impact. Instead of one needle in a haystack, you're looking for 3. Congratulations. Good luck to you.
