I was talking to someone I know about right to work vs normal states, and I said normal states have 15% higher wages for workers while right right to work states have 37% higher worker mortality rates. He said right to work states have cheaper cost of living so even if you make 15% less in right to work states, the cost of living is 30% lower, so it’s a net positive, which is just basic economics. I don’t know where he got his numbers, but he was using 30% increase and decrease interchangeably, which you can’t do with percentages, so I’m not sure if I trust his accuracy. It’s been a while since I’ve done statistics, but his basic math is wrong, right? You can’t just subtract percentages for data derived from different variables and call it a net positive, right? Wouldn’t you need the original data to make any kind of comparison?
It’s also pretty weird and callous that he completely sidestepped the worker mortality thing.