I agree with you. But speaking as someone who is in "the 1%", my experience is that most Americans don't define wealth by numbers, they define it by how jetset

I agree with you. But speaking as someone who is in "the 1%", my experience is that most Americans don't define wealth by numbers, they define it by how jetset a lifestyle can be. Of course being richer than 95% of the country makes you "rich"; that's near tautological. But that's not really the perception. Rather, the perception is that you're rich when you no longer need to work at all and can simply do whatever you want. That's really fuzzy, and I'd agree that it's indicative of wealth disparity in America that this has become the predominant conception of wealth. My point is that you two are probably talking past each other without meaning to.