Thats not the source of any of the stats in the meme though? There's no way the average income outside of the top 1000 is that low. Heck, that's not even a large proportion of "the 1%"
The problem with the unemployment statistic is that it doesn't include most people we would consider unemployed. If a person hasn't actively been job searching in the past four weeks, they are not counted. Therefore it does not count prisoners, full-time students, retirees, most of the homeless, etc.
Yeah I'm seeing 40k but a bunch of other numbers as well, some above 50k. It really comes down to how you measure it but in any case the numbers in the meme don't make sense.
BTW though unemployment is not the same as number of people not working. It refers just to people actively looking for a job that aren't employed.
Considering none of images include year information, the figures are rounded to even 0s, and the fact that it’s a meme…
It’s more than close enough. We’re arguing peanuts here, the premise of the meme is factual and backed by the data. But I admire your quest for truth and precision
Nah it's not even CLOSE to true though, that's what I'm trying to say haha. The influence of the top 1000 on average income is off by at least an order of magnitude, probably more. I don't like it when people double down on false information by saying "well it still makes a good point/it might as well be true/I would totally believe it if it actually happened"