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I would guess that a large proportion of people reading this comment have incomes in the top 1% globally. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance

I would guess that a large proportion of people reading this comment have incomes in the top 1% globally. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615/are-you-top-one-percent-world.asp http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615... Interestingly, this is less likely to be the case in wealth terms; many people globally with a lot of wealth (e.g. in agricultural land) have relatively low incomes, and the opposite is also true.

bzbarsky 11y ago
Measuring wealth without adjusting for lifecycle effects (which is how it's usually done) is a meaningless exercise. A doctor four years into his or her career almost certainly has negative wealth, while any retiree not solely depending on a government pension presumably has some reasonable wealth.