"The 1%" is catchy, but it falls well within Dunbar's number. Even people on the bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum run into people in the top 1% of lifetime

"The 1%" is catchy, but it falls well within Dunbar's number. Even people on the bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum run into people in the top 1% of lifetime earners on a regular basis, many of whom are doing notable good. Once you get into more rarified sectors of the income distribution, they are more or less invisible on a personal basis.