• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No doubt many people are suffering. But wages for the lowest quintile have been outpacing inflation for the past year. Which means that overall, most of those in the lowest quintile are better off now than they were a year ago. Of course, doing better is not the same as doing well.

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      This is as detached from actual people’s lives as the DNC’s messaging

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      11 months ago

      most of those in the lowest quintile are better off now than they were a year ago

      Yes, and on average each human has roughly 0.98 testicles.

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        The goal of public policy is to benefit the public as a whole. So the average will always be a more useful metric than the experience of an individual, or even a hundred individuals.

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            Except testicle coverage is a policy, not a valid metric. A valid metric is the outcome of a policy, like average deaths from testicular cancer.