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Is your annual income $35k or above? || If you press the button, the top 1% of income earners in the entire world have 99% of their wealth spread to the other 99% world population, distributed proportionately according to need. Do you press the button?

Yes | Press it
35.3%
Yes | Don't press it
29%
No | Press it
17.6%
No | Don't press it
18.1%

2,694 votesFinal results

9:33 PM · Jul 28, 2020

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We seem to designate “need” as a self-evident thing, but I don’t think it is. What degree of needs fulfilled? How high up Maslow’s heirachy are we going? Food/shelter/water? Does a grass hut meet the “shelter” need? There’s a lot more ambiguity here than I think most consider.

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Twitter needs to allow people to change their votes. :( Wanted no, don't press.

Dr. Daedalus, MD FTP ACAB

@daedalusleto

Jul 28, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

gotta point out, income and wealth are not always directly correlated. lots of folks with 6 figure salaries with next to no wealth to their names.

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The way you worded this is confusing.

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Easy come, easy go

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I don't understand the downside to pressing it. Other than it affecting your greed.

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The $35K number is a bit misleading as a demarcation between the 1% and the 99% because it’s a per household per capita number. That's for each person living under the same roof, including children. (So a family of four, for example, needs to make $136,000.)

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On the one hand, the similar splits for 'yes' and 'no' suggest your followers are impressively un-self-interested. On the other hand, what are the yes:press it people waiting for? Or are they only willing to sacrifice their wealth if everyone else does too?