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Does anyone have a list that reflects this? It doesn't seem to be the case in the Forbes 400: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Forbes_400

Does anyone have a list that reflects this? It doesn't seem to be the case in the Forbes 400: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Forbes_400 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Forbe... But perhaps that's biased?

toyg 10y ago
1% of 319m US population is 3.19m. 400 people are the 0.00000001%.
- comstock 10y ago
  Right, but is there any way to enumerate the top 1%? Or a proxy for it.
  - toyg 10y ago
    Census data, land ownership, shareholding, etc etc... It's a research field for a reason, figuring out this sort of data is not trivial. Edit: btw, this is why Piketty's work is so famous: he supposedly crunched more numbers than others, and produced extensive references. And still, there is/was a huge diatribe on how he crunched and what he crunched...
- arwhatever 10y ago
  It makes me so angry that only 3.19m people are in the top 1%. We have got to do something about this.
  - zeroer 10y ago
    You can help by having more kids.
  - toyg 10y ago
    Are you suggesting we should follow the example of that notorious UK minister who wanted all schools to be above the average? I'm all for that.
- harryh 10y ago
  400 people are the 0.00000001%. I think you mean the 0.0001%
hackuser 10y ago
> It doesn't seem to be the case in the Forbes 400 Per the link, 7 of the 20 inherited their wealth. Of the others in the top 10, per Wikipedia: * Gates' wealthy family background is described in another post in this discussion. * Bezos' family (broadly defined) owned a 25,000 acre ranch in Texas and his father was an Exxon engineer * Buffet's father was a member of the US Congress * Zuckerburg is the child of a psychiatrist and dentist, and attended high school at Phillips Exeter academy (possibly the most elite high school in the U.S.). * Ellison grew up middle class * Bloomberg seems to have been working class Note also that in the land of opportunity, where ~33% of the population is white-skinned and male, 90% (18 of 20) of the 20 wealthiest people are white guys and the other 2 are white women who inherited their money from white guys.

toyg 10y ago

1% of 319m US population is 3.19m. 400 people are the 0.00000001%.

comstock 10y ago
Right, but is there any way to enumerate the top 1%? Or a proxy for it.
- toyg 10y ago
  Census data, land ownership, shareholding, etc etc... It's a research field for a reason, figuring out this sort of data is not trivial. Edit: btw, this is why Piketty's work is so famous: he supposedly crunched more numbers than others, and produced extensive references. And still, there is/was a huge diatribe on how he crunched and what he crunched...
arwhatever 10y ago
It makes me so angry that only 3.19m people are in the top 1%. We have got to do something about this.
- zeroer 10y ago
  You can help by having more kids.
- toyg 10y ago
  Are you suggesting we should follow the example of that notorious UK minister who wanted all schools to be above the average? I'm all for that.
harryh 10y ago
400 people are the 0.00000001%. I think you mean the 0.0001%

hackuser 10y ago

> It doesn't seem to be the case in the Forbes 400 Per the link, 7 of the 20 inherited their wealth. Of the others in the top 10, per Wikipedia: * Gates' wealthy family background is described in another post in this discussion. * Bezos' family (broadly defined) owned a 25,000 acre ranch in Texas and his father was an Exxon engineer * Buffet's father was a member of the US Congress * Zuckerburg is the child of a psychiatrist and dentist, and attended high school at Phillips Exeter academy (possibly the most elite high school in the U.S.). * Ellison grew up middle class * Bloomberg seems to have been working class Note also that in the land of opportunity, where ~33% of the population is white-skinned and male, 90% (18 of 20) of the 20 wealthiest people are white guys and the other 2 are white women who inherited their money from white guys.