Comments on: A Billion Here, A Billion There. . . . http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/statistic_for_t.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:19:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Mike Friedman http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/statistic_for_t.html/comment-page-1#comment-47213 Mike Friedman Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:49:21 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/09/a-billion-here-a-billion-there.html#comment-47213 "<i>In 1998 a billion dollars was the total lifetime output of 20,000 American workers; </i>" Really? 1 billion / 20,000 = 50,000. Are you suggesting that the total lifetime output of an American worker in 1998 was just $50,000? Phyllis Tickle and her editors may be innumerate idiots - I don't know anything about them but I tend to be suspicious of people who write / publish class war books - but you guys are serious people... didn't you read this and just scratch your heads and say "Those numbers look a bit off"? “In 1998 a billion dollars was the total lifetime output of 20,000 American workers; ”

Really?

1 billion / 20,000 = 50,000. Are you suggesting that the total lifetime output of an American worker in 1998 was just $50,000?

Phyllis Tickle and her editors may be innumerate idiots – I don’t know anything about them but I tend to be suspicious of people who write / publish class war books – but you guys are serious people… didn’t you read this and just scratch your heads and say “Those numbers look a bit off”?

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