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Originally Posted by blankall
To be fair, a large number of homes either consist of a single person living alone or a single parent these days. Can't find the stats for Calgary specifically, but only about 2/3 of households consist of families with more than 1 person in them:
Of those multi-unit families, many are going to be single parent households or have at least 1 stay at home parent. It also doesn't take into account families that are just starting out or have already retired family members.
When you look at that 16% as a proportion of households where you have two parents working full time, it's probably much higher and closer to 50%.
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It considered 558,910 households. There were 129,765 one-person private households. So just over 75% with more than one person in the households. And yes, those households would include single parents - but it makes no sense to exclude them.
If you set up so narrowly that you're now pretty much excluding the entirety of the lower class, what's the point in trying to discuss class at all? I think everyone agrees that dual, full-time earners with either a valuable trade or post-secondary education can get over the $200,000 total income benchmark. If that's Oil Stain's argument, sure everyone agrees. That's not the point though, the point is only 16% of households do so. So we need to stop using qualifiers like "easily make over $200,000" because reality and stats don't back that up.