Comment Re:It's The American Drean (Score 3, Informative) 1313
Balderdash!
It's a percentage, look it up on wikipedia. You'll see that percentages are an ancient way of making things relative, regardless of their absolute value. "Per" means divided evenly, and "cent" means 100. You take some absolute number, break it up into 100 equal parts, and then you can compare it to other equally divided number w/o being concerned about the absolute amount.
And, some basic necessity things don't scale well with the income level of the people who use them. It's much easier for a wealthy person to buy food, even expensive, organic, hand picked food, than it is for a poor person to buy horse meat and high fructose corn syrup.
It's a percentage, look it up on wikipedia. You'll see that percentages are an ancient way of making things relative, regardless of their absolute value. "Per" means divided evenly, and "cent" means 100. You take some absolute number, break it up into 100 equal parts, and then you can compare it to other equally divided number w/o being concerned about the absolute amount.
And, some basic necessity things don't scale well with the income level of the people who use them. It's much easier for a wealthy person to buy food, even expensive, organic, hand picked food, than it is for a poor person to buy horse meat and high fructose corn syrup.