Quote from: RE on Jan 11, 2025, 11:15 AM The fires that are burning indiscriminately are destroying neighborhoods that are home to everyone from working-class people to wealthy individuals. Money and privilege are not making a difference here.
I'll dispute that claim right off the bat.
RE
It's useful to understand that there's a difference between the average (the number you get by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values), and the median which means the middle point
The average net worth in American households in 2022 was $1,059,470 but the median was only $192,700.
That is a ratio of 5.5. If entire neighborhoods are gone simple math shows the poor must suffer more than the rich will because income inequality is so damn huge.
More people than not are shit out of luck. In the end we all are.