It is interesting that we lack good words for key bands of wealth.
Top 1% is apparently 4 million. So millionaire works.
Threshold for top 0.01% is apparently $111 million. I’m guessing 0.1% is like 10-20 million.
We need words like decamillionaire and centimillionaire.
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The lack of good words for meaningful striating of the top 1% is an interesting condition of illegibility. For starters we should start plotting wealth on loglog or semilog scales
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Billionaires and centimillionaires often argue for higher tax rates but never for adding brackets (which top out at a low level relative to their incomes).
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I mean, we already do so with salaries: N figure salary. Pretty extensible to wealth, I think. Your examples would be 7 figure, 8 figure, and 9 figure wealth.
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