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Compare the savings rates and this picture no longer looks rosy due to data disappearing when averaged out.

What you have is a bimodal distribution of people who almost never will own a house and those who will. And a bunch of rich people who have whole fleets of houses.

This is why nobody should ever use averages and rates alone without a supporting histogram.



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