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Would you care to provide an estimate as to what percentage of people with $1+ million net worths are criminals? Order of magnitude is fine. 30%? 3%? 0.3%? 0.03
by patio11 7y ago
Would you care to provide an estimate as to what percentage of people with $1+ million net worths are criminals? Order of magnitude is fine. 30%? 3%? 0.3%? 0.03%?
Spoiler: dentists vastly outnumber criminals.
- munificent 7y agoSure, but people with $1+million net worth are unlikely to own $5M+ homes, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
- astrodust 7y ago$1M net worth in many areas is effectively someone who bought a house 40 years ago and paid off the mortgage. A million bucks ain't what it used to be.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoIn the U.S., the incarceration rate is about 0.7%. So as a point of fact it seems likely that dentists do not outnumber criminals. :) They do probably outnumber white collar/big money criminals though.
- user5994461 7y agoThankfully dentists never participate in tax fraud, wage theft or any of common things associated with running your own business.
- patio11 7y agoCan you rephrase this in terms of a positive claim about reality which is rigorous enough to be falsifiable? I'll falsify it for you. We are bullshitting about the incidence of criminality among the wealthy out of some crabs-pulling-down-crabs-leaving-the-bucket class warfare. This is not instrumentally useful on HN; many HNers will find themselves wealthy, some sooner and some later, and others should not self-limit on their chances of ending up there by adopting discourses which suggest that wealth is necessarily stolen.
- datavirtue 7y agoLOL....Thats adorable