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What's interesting about Perkins's letter is the fact that the WSJ thought it was worth publishing.
by MaysonL 13y ago
What's interesting about Perkins's letter is the fact that the WSJ thought it was worth publishing.
- Roboprog 13y agoAlso of interest is that the people (Googlers, a writer) that were mentioned as being harassed sounded more like "the 10%" to me than "the 1 %". Deliberate misdirection of identity???
- Tycho 13y agoI think 1% is a ridiculous misnomer. You need to get to the 0.01% before you find people who are what you might call 'disgustingly rich.' The 1% are doctors, programmers, accountants...
- thrill 13y agoYeah - those people - the ones that pay 30% of the nation's taxes.
- Tycho 13y agoI wasn't making a value judgement about the megarich, just a statistical one.
- dredmorbius 13y agoWhich is pretty much directly a function of 1) income tax based on a percentage of income (with capital gains taxed at a significantly lower rate) and 2) the VAST amounts of income accruing to the 1% (and above).
- dllthomas 13y agoYou can't squeeze water from a stone.
- _delirium 13y agoSome, though not too many. The household income needed to be in the top-1% of households is $380k, which even two-programmer households typically don't hit, unless they win the options/acquisition lottery.