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Sorry, just looked. 80k is 75 percentile. 132k is 90 percentile.

Agree. That may be true about the median to the 'average guy', but the average can be skewed by large or small incomes. The median is just the halfway point.

@grislybutter it's a good point... workers as owners

In capitalistic corporate America, and indeed any capitalistic or semi-capitalistic country that allows private ownership shares, the workers can be owners... it's called stock.  

Gradually one can "change the family tree" by gradually becoming owner.  One can be part owner of thousands of companies domestic and international, via mutual funds like a total stock market index fund, and can be lender to many companies and governments as well, via bond-market mutual funds.  Capital doesn't have to be large; it can come in the form of small steady persistent streams invested over a long period of time.... instead of sipping on cups of Starbucks, how about dripping that money into ownership of Starbucks instead?

The opportunity for ownership is there... but action to meet the opportunity depends on the individual.  So, I own a bit of Sound United itself, for example, in addition to my Marantz amps.  

good discussion overall and topic with a legitimate question to ponder!  thanks to OP

@ghasley None taken. I took a quick look at mean, median and mode to refresh my memory and still misunderstood some of it with the examples given (there were no large outliers in the comparison) and the results were all close to each other. 

All the best,
Nonoise

@ghasley "its never been in fashion for educators to present opposite sides of a given topic"

hmm... guess it depends on the quality of the teachers you have.  I haven't had the displeasure to struggle w one-sided profs or teachers; generally they did present various perspectives, though with some unfortunate exceptions. 

I started learning about Darwin in junior high school, when it was still called junior high school instead of "middle school,"  ... in Oklahoma.  My schooling in evolution continued throughout high school in Minnesota, as did my introduction to Kent State (where I ended up attending as one of my graduate schools) and intro to Marx.  Maybe I've been lucky... but I've been to a lot of schools in multiple locations both in this country and abroad.  It's been the rare teacher who was adamantly one-sided. 

 "never" is a big word, as is "fashion"... 

true, a friend of mine who immigrated to U.S. from China was required to take multiple courses in "Maoist Principles" ... I wasn't there, but my guess is that your statement would apply, since my friend has since had to learn about American alternatives