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Everyone commenting on here wants to believe that they will become one of the top 1%. No one here wants to contemplate what would happen if they fell to the bot
by edent 14y ago
Everyone commenting on here wants to believe that they will become one of the top 1%.
No one here wants to contemplate what would happen if they fell to the bottom 1%.
- rwmj 14y agoDo you have figures to back up this broad assertion about HN readers?
- tripzilch 14y ago"The bottom 1%" is a bit of a useless demographic to contemplate, because of power-law distributions. The bottom 1% will be dead within about 1.5 years[0]. How's that for contemplation? [0] rough estimate from current world pop and global death rate, rounded up, can't be too far off
- danielharan 14y agoI think somewhere around 50k/yr puts you in the global top 1%.