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(A bit obvious but it needs to be constantly reminded) Percentage of national population below world average income (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by Neptium@lemmygrad.ml to c/alwaysthesamemap@lemmygrad.ml

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Source: Imperialism and the international split of the proletariat.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And in the other way, especially accounting for costs of living. Poland, Lithuania and Estonia in the same cathegory as Switzerland or Luxembourg is like the joke about man and dog having averagely three legs.

[–] Neptium@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And in the other way, especially accounting for costs of living.

See my comment above.

Poland, Lithuania and Estonia in the same cathegory as Switzerland or Luxembourg is like the joke about man and dog having averagely three legs.

You are merely arguing against the presentation of the data on the map, not the methodology of the data or the conclusions made from the data.

PERCENTAGE OF THE NATIONAL POPULATION BELOW WORLD AVERAGE INCOME OR CONSUMPTION

In this image found in the article I sourced the map from, it is made perfectly clear that Poland, with a population of 15% earning below the world average, is obviously vastly different than that of Switzerland of around 2%. In other words, proportionally, there are 7.5x more people in Poland that live with wages below the world average.

It is purely arbitrary that the author made the cutting off point for the legend 20%, when it could easily be in 10%, which would seperate Poland and Lithuania (but not Estonia) from Switzerland. The author could also have based it on quartile ranges (which would defeat the nature of this analysis).

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 months ago

You are merely arguing against the presentation of the data on the map, not the methodology of the data or the conclusions made from the data.

Yes, it lacks granularity. Also, statistics for wages in Poland are hugely falsified, as mentioned in my other post so you could probably add at least 5-10% to the above graph.