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iso1631yesterday at 12:49 PM1 replyview on HN

1% of Americans would be over 3 million people, not a couple hundred.


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komali2yesterday at 1:29 PM

.1% hold 12.6% of national wealth so that's 300,000 people. It tends to clump at the top, apparently.

In any case, it seems a bit bizarre to me that the wealth is distributed so unevenly. Do you believe those 3 million people work so hard that their value is that much higher than the combined output of 297 million people?

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