On today's Q&A Conversation Starter, are you richer than your friends?

I am excited to talk about this one because I hope what we're able to do is set the record straight

because I think out there in popular society, the perception of what is going on in your

neighbors and your friends and your colleagues is maybe different than what the actual reality is.

Well, I like how, because are you richer than your friends? I think that when I think about

community of the people you hang out with, and I've shared this, this is where Old Man on the

Front porch moment is that when I was younger coming from humble beginnings, I didn't realize how

humble we were until I went to college because everybody around me in my hometown was kind of

in the same financial situation. All my peers were. We all worked jobs. When I heard people

bragging about half-baths and stuff, I was like, Dad's got a sink down the basement that he scrubs

the gojo off of his hands. We're just as good as the half-bath people, but it wasn't until

I got to college that I realized the disparity between the haves and the have-nots to a degree.

With social media, I feel like perceptions are being distorted because instead of just comparing

ourselves to our neighbors, to our friends, and our peer group, we've gone beyond now to all the

influences of what's going on with social media, and it's distorting how we process and see the

world. Yeah, I think it's interesting. Our brains are filling in gaps with incorrect bridges to

things that don't exactly exist. We see these things on social media, and we see this perception

that people put out there. Well, then we begin building a construct of something that in our opinion

is completely detached from reality. There's been some really interesting numbers and studies that

have come out to back this up recently. Yeah, so let's jump right into. I'd love to kind of show

this is what we're going to pull up is there was a survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

you gov, where they came up with and they asked people, how much do you perceive people make

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