(Also credit to @AmbrosialArts, @NSFW_Sadie, and one other person who disappeared from my DMs. They replied to my original tweet pointing this out, but I asked them to delete the tweet to prevent swaying respondents.)
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Did you also do one of these with just 1%? I think I voted for that one but against this one but I might just be a cruel socialist with a bad memory idk.
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No. You can't or won't read. The poll was world population, highlighting how foolish any American is to rave on about the 1%.
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Top 1% of the WORLD makes 32k a year. The top 1% varies dramatically between countries. In the united states, it's 389k per year. Certain countries are terribly unequal, others are not as much.
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Missing the important context of where that would land them, percentage wise, in the new scenario
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...and would the button effect be repeated for those who remained in the top 10% after the initial event?
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Leaving people who make $13,000/year having access to the highest standard of living in the world but a substantially less unequal society overall With 85% of the wealth in the hands of 90% of the people
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Western countries would probably pull a reverse Zimbabwe and re-issue currency with much higher face value for psychological reasons
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And a roll of toilet paper
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