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The people that answer yes to you might not even realize they are actually part of the richest group, particularly since software engineers are in the top 10% o
by conanbatt 9y ago
The people that answer yes to you might not even realize they are actually part of the richest group, particularly since software engineers are in the top 10% of income in the US.
- llukas 9y agoExcept that income distribution is skewed so much that top 1% top 0.1% it is really what matters in terms of inequality.
- conanbatt 9y agoEvery single person can claim there is someone richer than them, up until you get to the richest 10 people. If you have 100k in your bank account, the difference between you and someone living on 2 dollars a day is a vast enough inequality.
- llukas 9y agoSounds like perfect argument for ultra rich to make middle class to pick up the bill. https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-richest-wealth-credit-suisse https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-ri...
- QAPereo 9y agoMaybe we just see the overall trend and its global impacts, and we don’t think buying a luxury fallout shelter is the same response.
- Daishiman 9y agoThe very top of the bracket (0.1%) is the one paying proportionally far less than the rest of the upper class, given their access to all sorts of accounting tricks and exemptions that you have when you are making money from capital gains or when you have tons of active assets to shuffle money around.
- refurb 9y agoDo you have data to back that up? From what I've seen, the top 0.1% pay a far larger share of taxes than the rest. Based on federal gov't data on total taxes paid, the top 0.01% (even higher income than you 0.1%) pay over 20% of all taxes with an average rate of over 49%.[1] [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573269