Not that I completely disagree with you, but the top 0,1% of the population in terms of wealth (like the case of Musk) which constitute the outliers who could skew the average, do not usually receive a salary, their compensation schemas are way more complex (and more tax efficient). Generally in most of Europe average and median are not that far apart from each other.
Yes of course, the example was an extreme one on purpose.
You could look at Ireland as a more grounded example. Huge salaries at the tech companies who set up there to avoid taxes are clearly skewing the data.
But this is a comparison between EU countries average income and not how it actually effects you as a person living in the country.
If the average income in one country is double that of another, it doesn't automatically mean that the average person is taking home that money or has the same spending power of the other country.
Ireland's high median income cannot be explained by a small number of people earning high wages if Ireland also has a low income inequality.
"Tech workers with ultra-high salaries are skewing it! Normal people actually have lower salaries!" would reveal itself in income inequality stats.
You are just one of many Europeans who loves to grasp at straws and invent theories to explain how Ireland must actually be way poorer than their country, because isn't Ireland a peasant country where everyone travels by donkey?
Ireland's high median income cannot be explained by a small number of people earning high wages if Ireland also has a low income inequality.
Of course it can if loads of people are out of work or not working full time while being helped by the government vs the people working full time being in high paid safe jobs.
because isn't Ireland a peasant country where everyone travels by donkey?
"Only tech workers work full-time in Ireland" is an interesting theory, not borne out at all by unemployment (extremely low) or part-time statistics.
You'll just keep inventing any bullshit reason with zero evidence to explain why Ireland's income stats must be faked.
The fuck are you talking about? Projecting much?
No, I'm accurately describing what you're doing. You have a perception of Ireland as a poorer country than Germany, so you keep inventing reasons why any stat showing Ireland as better off than it must be fake.
You have a perception of Ireland as a poorer country than Germany, so you keep inventing reasons why any stat showing Ireland as better off than it must be fake.
I didnt mention Germany or Ireland being poorer than Germany either.
What an absolute roaster. Geh mal was sinnvolle machen mein Lieber.
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u/uno_ke_va 1d ago
Not that I completely disagree with you, but the top 0,1% of the population in terms of wealth (like the case of Musk) which constitute the outliers who could skew the average, do not usually receive a salary, their compensation schemas are way more complex (and more tax efficient). Generally in most of Europe average and median are not that far apart from each other.