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Cost of living

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:36 AM

BYTEMITE

Handy figure from xkcd.

http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-2058&y=-3430&z=5

Discuss.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:47 AM

BYTEMITE

One thing I notice, apart from CEO wages. The candidates from each party who raise the most money become that parties official nomination.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:13 AM

BYTEMITE

Also, it appears there's a lot of economic market fears, but perhaps not justification for it. Maybe.

There's a fairly significant wealth gap.

The chart IS actually missing a few things, such as potential extraction pollution costs for Natural Gas.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:41 AM

CANTTAKESKY

Thanks Byte. That is a lot of data to plow through.

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. -- Lucy Parsons (1853-1942, labor activist and anarcho-communist)

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:45 AM

ANTHONYT

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Hello,

On what basis was he able to calculate the cost of a Hogwarts education?

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:48 AM

GEEZER

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Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

On what basis was he able to calculate the cost of a Hogwarts education?

--Anthony

Source data is here. http://xkcd.com/980/sources/

Hogwarts tuition comes from here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2016231/480-cloaks--160-wand
-41-500-tuition-How-REALLY-cost-send-child-Hogwarts.html

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:49 AM

BYTEMITE

I think there's a conversion between galleons (wizard gold) and pounds given in one of the books, and the cost of tuition in galleons is also given somewhere. Once you have it in pounds, you basically just multiply by two to get dollars.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:55 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Well yeah - why you think hitting them in the bankroll is my primary opener against some chump I don't want in office ?

-F

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:14 AM

ANTHONYT

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Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

On what basis was he able to calculate the cost of a Hogwarts education?

--Anthony

Source data is here. http://xkcd.com/980/sources/

Hogwarts tuition comes from here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2016231/480-cloaks--160-wand
-41-500-tuition-How-REALLY-cost-send-child-Hogwarts.html

"Keep the Shiny side up"

Hello,

It seems that the source article indicates that they pulled the tuition fees out of a proverbial magic hat, based on top British boarding schools. There is little basis for the assumptions made. If tuition fees are actually discussed in the primary material, why not use that data?

I find some of their other data suspect as well, and wonder how much shopping around the University did when they conducted their study.

Shame on the University for using such shoddy figures, and shame on the webcomic for allowing their humorous and ironic observations about finances to be corrupted with such poor research.

And to think, I was about to buy a Nissan Cube based on this data.

--Anthony

_______________________________________________

"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:33 AM

BYTEMITE

Hold your horses, there. I didn't know about their source table that Geezer posted.

And secondly, I don't think the ENTIRE table is dismissable based on the webcomic artist deciding to make a stab at guessing Hogwarts tuition costs for the sake of humour. You'd really have to evaluate each source and the resulting data on it's own merits.

I'm not sure there's anything for anyone to be ashamed about.

Though, yes, if I were you, I wouldn't base financial decisions on a web comic. The observations therein are still interesting however.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:49 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

Apologies, Byte, if it was not obvious. I was attempting to use humor and irony in a self-referential way.

The chart is rather interesting, and broadly informative.

--Anthony

_______________________________________________

"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 7:10 AM

BYTEMITE

Oh.

I'm tired, that can impact my ability to pick up on a joke.

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