• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      18 days ago

      Perfectly average is a pretty hard target to hit. Where do you start taking the measurement from, and do you include the curvature, or just a straight line measurement? And do you have to hit maximum before measuring, or do we take an average of your measurements?

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        just pull it from the economic stats of your country/state/city.

        however most people live in bubbles are are largely concerned about how they are doing to their neighbors, friends, and work colleagues. so if you make 400K a year but steve two desks over makes 550K a year, you feel like you’re below average and failing at life.

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          18 days ago

          Yeah, but like, how do you measure steve? Do you ask him nicely first, or are you doing it all incognito like? And you need to standardize the measurements somehow. Do you ask the same person to do the measuring? How is that going to work when you need to poll across a large section to be sure you’re perfectly average?

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            17 days ago

            because Steve is probably constantly bragging about how much money they have.

            rich people love nothing more at social events than to brag about how much money they are spending/making.

            look dude, the stats are out there. google them. it takes a few seconds to look up labor data, homeprices, wage data, etc.

            the key is to stop agonizing about what could have been or should be. accept what you are.

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              17 days ago

              Yeah, but steve, and most of the others, are self-reporting. Can you really trust those numbers? Unless you get your hands dirty and put the ruler up there yourself, how can you be certain? You’ve got to be certain here. Maybe it’s not six, maybe it’s only five and three quarters.

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      18 days ago

      because as you grow up your cohort pool gets bigger an bigger and more elite.

      being a big fish in a tiny pond doesn’t mean you’re a big fish in the ocean. in the Ocean there are Tuna 100x as big as you and even bigger predators.