It could also just be that the line is so small that you can't really see the variation in the line. Maybe if they were indexed to 100 it would be easier to compare the change.Why do poor people experience little or no decline in their income when they age? Because they're already making minimum wage (or close to that)? Because a large part of their income is government transfers? Or just the particularities of their jobs?
Good point.Although I should also point out that the people age 19 in the bottom decile aren't necessarily going to be in the bottom decile at age 75, so it's not really tracking their income over their lifetimes anyway...
But it has lots of cute little smokestacks and some arrows and stuff. So you get the idea anyway.Legend:
Big red symbol: 10 million - 15 million
Purple symbol: 5,050 million - 10 million
Small blue symbol: 20,500 million - 5,0450 million
WHAT?!?!?! It doesn't make sense?!?!
Legend:
WHAT?!?!?! It doesn't make sense?!?!