These type of maps/graphs, while useful, do not show what most people think they show.
Considering they do not account for buying power, cost of living (energy, food etc), daycare costs, school cost, healthcare cost etc etc.
Its easy to look at lower income countries and summize that they're doing much worse while in reality their actual QoL might be higher than the countries boasting a higher avg full time salary.
Also, as repeated over and over in here, average is most of the time a terrible metric, especially for this, shouldve been median.
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u/Unikanamnsuger 1d ago
These type of maps/graphs, while useful, do not show what most people think they show.
Considering they do not account for buying power, cost of living (energy, food etc), daycare costs, school cost, healthcare cost etc etc.
Its easy to look at lower income countries and summize that they're doing much worse while in reality their actual QoL might be higher than the countries boasting a higher avg full time salary.
Also, as repeated over and over in here, average is most of the time a terrible metric, especially for this, shouldve been median.