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Works out that around 31,191 people rule america. That works out at about 33 people per member of congress. A manageable number I suppose, should they all deci
by tomelders 15y ago
Works out that around 31,191 people rule america.
That works out at about 33 people per member of congress. A manageable number I suppose, should they all decide to lobby.
I do find it highly unlikely that they'll ever reach a consensus at those sort of numbers though.
That said, around 1,245 of the top 0.01% should statistically be sociopaths, which is a concern.
- po 15y agoThat said, around 1,245 of the top 0.01% should statistically be sociopaths, which is a concern. Assuming an even distribution… which is unlikely.
- tomelders 15y agothe distribution is skewed towards the top 0.1%. According to "This American Life", the percentage of psychopaths* is higher amongst the wealthy and successful than the rest of society. Not sure what the definition of wealthy and successful is though. *I wrote sociopaths by accident, although there's some debate as to wether there's a difference between the two. Also, what's with the down votes? What did I say..?
- po 15y agoRight that was my point... that the top 0.1% would probably have more. How did you arrive at the ~1k number you did? By extrapolating from general population incidence of sociopaths? That only works with even distribution.
- tomelders 15y agoI wasn't being totally serious, but I calculated the top 0.1% of total US population, and then 4% of that, which is apparently the percentage of sociopaths/psychopaths for that section of society. The average across the entire US population is about 1%.