The context was the famous observation that subjects of psychological studies etc. tend to be WEIRD (Western, educated, from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries). So “rich in comparison with most of the world’s population” is probably the relevant criterion, and actually individual wealth as opposed to the wealth of the country you’re in isn’t really the point.
Although, if LW is mostly read by the WEIRD, having its content mostly written by and targeted at the WEIRD isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Just out of curiosity, do you mean $100k/year income or $100k assets or what?
(Looking again at the definition of WEIRD, it occurs to me that it’s immensely redundant, which isn’t terribly surprising since the items in the list were presumably designed to make the WEIRD acronym possible. Industrialized nations and rich nations are more or less the same thing. Both correlate highly with being democratic. “Western” more or less implies all three. Most people in Western nations are highly educated by global standards, though I guess it’s also true that subjects of psychology studies are better-educated than average even among Westerners. But “Psychology is WE” wouldn’t have sounded as good as “Psychology is WEIRD”.)
do you mean $100k/year income or $100k assets or what?
100k saved somewhere is the baseline, I don’t know enough about American prices to say about how much extra stuff should be worth. The most reasonable addition I can come with is no debt, or payments.
On a side note, I never really understood the whole “$x a year” thing. There are so many expenses during the year itself that what you made the whole year is pretty much irrelevant.
The context was the famous observation that subjects of psychological studies etc. tend to be WEIRD (Western, educated, from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries). So “rich in comparison with most of the world’s population” is probably the relevant criterion, and actually individual wealth as opposed to the wealth of the country you’re in isn’t really the point.
Although, if LW is mostly read by the WEIRD, having its content mostly written by and targeted at the WEIRD isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Just out of curiosity, do you mean $100k/year income or $100k assets or what?
(Looking again at the definition of WEIRD, it occurs to me that it’s immensely redundant, which isn’t terribly surprising since the items in the list were presumably designed to make the WEIRD acronym possible. Industrialized nations and rich nations are more or less the same thing. Both correlate highly with being democratic. “Western” more or less implies all three. Most people in Western nations are highly educated by global standards, though I guess it’s also true that subjects of psychology studies are better-educated than average even among Westerners. But “Psychology is WE” wouldn’t have sounded as good as “Psychology is WEIRD”.)
100k saved somewhere is the baseline, I don’t know enough about American prices to say about how much extra stuff should be worth. The most reasonable addition I can come with is no debt, or payments.
On a side note, I never really understood the whole “$x a year” thing. There are so many expenses during the year itself that what you made the whole year is pretty much irrelevant.