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Can you live in a TV and eat it? Cause the average rent was $175 dollars a month

An average car cost $4,000. So about 1/10th. Applying that to rent, the rent would be $1750, which is pretty close.

Now do that same analysis with average/mean pay scales and compare. Then the article will make sense.

1. Are you sure that the average car doesn't cost $25k, instead?

2. What was the average wage?