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by gjm11 4847 days ago
Net worth can be negative and quite often is. Quoting percentage changes for values close to zero isn't very meaningful -- a change from $12k to $5k net worth probably has about the same impact as a change from $8k to $1k, but one is a "58% decrease" and one is an "87.5% decrease".

If there's something shocking about this statistic, it's how small the figure is, not the fact that it's dropped by 68%.