Visualization became a hot topic on the web recently. This is a nice visualization on how Americans are spending their money.
It was a nice finding to complement some current reading on buying behaviour (“How customers think” and “Why customers buy things they dont need”). It’s macro vs personal behaviour (two somewhat opposite sides of spending) but interesting nevertheless.
Transportation accounts for 17,6%
Time to rethink modern life? Does commuting make sense? Could economic incentives to companies strongly address it? Why do companies in Silicon Valley have to be mostly in Palo Alto for instance leaving employees with communting or high housing costs for instance? I keep recalling from my old commuting days that 2 hours in traffic per day is 10h/week (one more day of work)… One of the advantages of moving to Copenhagen was exactly this (even if i had my bike stolen recently).
Housing is 34,1%, of which 20% is for shelter only
Wow, not a surprise but makes you think if it could be different? I’m average here.
Source: VisualEconomics
