They could have left a naked "average" at the end of the sentence and it would have made sense to assume 'appropriate methods'. They could have thrown in an appropriate qualifier do describe the cohort they're comparing him to "most people approaching retirement age."
They chose to say "the average American" which makes the statement somewhere between misleading and an outright fabrication.
You can't just bait-and-switch the headline. Don't say "these things are equivalent" and then turn around and say "it doesn't make sense to compare these things."
If I had an investment account that would give me $10k per year, it would be worth about $125k. If I was entitled to $10k a year through a pension, wouldnt it be fair to say that entitlement is an asset that's worth (at least a portion of) that same value?
What's especially wild is that the kilogram was still an artifact in 2019! Every single calibrated weight in the world, big and small... They all could be traced back to a single metal chunk in a french vault.
It's very rare that people who wish that "guns were regulated like x" or "can't believe that guns are less regulated than y" have very little knowledge of what gun laws actually are like at the federal level, much less the archipelago of state laws.
Like your literacy skills? What's your objective? You think lemmybucks are going to make you a profit someday?