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62% of you would force everyone who makes $32,400 a year or more to forfeit all their earnings, with allowances starting at $1,620/year.

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Aella

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Jan 22, 2018

If you press the button before you, the top 1% earners in the world will be forced to forfeit all their earnings and be given a fixed allowance equal to 5% their previous income. Their money will be distributed equally to everyone else, proportionally according to need. You:Show this poll

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10:32 AM · Jan 29, 2018

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This is the point of a lot of my polls - to try to demonstrate that very often we don't think deeply about the answers we give. I would like to foster a culture where we put more careful evaluation into the things we think and the hidden implications of questions asked.

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Yea that was clear when you revealed the $32k number. The thing is nobody thinks of that number when we say the 1%. Sure $32k is a lot amount of money in most places of the world, but in most highly developed countries it's just average and can only get you an average life.

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People deff misinterpreted what 1% actually means.

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I 100% assumed 1% meant those who make 6 figures + and I bet you of we ran a poll to ask what ppl thought it would be an overwhelming majority who thought the same as me. The 1% doesn't equate to average USA wage in anyone's mind.

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I think this speaks more to the ethnocentric bias of americans, just assuming that everyone else in the world has an income strata roughly similar to our own.

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I think you used ambiguity in your question and I'm not entirely sure your numbers add up. I don't have time to look into it atm but a very brief search showed the top .7% of the world's population earned over $1,000.000...so they would get $50,000 per year.