Fair enough , though anything is a massive improvement over the monstrosity that was HFA . <| sep |> Which has nothing to do with being fascist or not , thats a psychological debate that hasnt been settled yet , as nobody really understands how brain malfunctioning andor hormone inbalances cause mental illness and deviant behavior . <| sep |> As someone who paid for 4 years of college with EQ , it ' s probably accurate when you take into account value of time etc . And it ' s not like EVERYONE produced that much . Some of us made enough to account for quite a few people at that average . I mean as others have said , if EVERYONE bought and sold with real cash the value would have dropped , but using the numbers produced by those of us that did it , and extrapolating it out for population , the number is probably correct for the purpose of the article . Obviously economies in real life don ' t work like that , but it ' s a fun piece of trivia .