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Reminder: this is from 2009, it is much much worse now. Numbers that may help you find out where you might be. If you make over 200k as a household you’re likely in the top 10%. Over 400k? Likely somewhere in the top 1%. As a household. If you make 100-200k you’re the other 10% of the top 20%. The rest is basically in increments of 25k
MofongoBalls
Just work harder and pull up on your bootstraps duhhhhh
iabsolutelyfckingabhorguns
Marginal tax rate above 80% please.
VaultGirl69
Get the fuck out of you're talented. They can't exploit you if you don't work for any of them. Teach those dicks a lesson.
SonderingStrike
Organise today, unite your fellow worker and demand better.
N0MamesGuey
Damn American oligarchs!
CaptSchmidtGaming
there is just no point in persueing a career for financial meaning what so ever considering how much money is out there and wont budge.
carryall
They told my generation to shut up and be happy. When the guillotine are being built, we will do just that.
Th4t1dude
I've got something for this
1freemancan
Lookin a lot like slavery with extra steps again...
RoosterBrewster
AngryGraphicDesigner
I’m pretty sure that a good population knows the last one is reality. It’s fucking disgusting and needs to change.
buttcreambandit
Maybe now, but this was 2009
geminicroquette
they don't have that kind of wealth. it's mostly stock market nonsense that can disappear overnight, not scrooge mcduck's coin vault
MovieRideTheGreat
What percentage of the Top 20% are professional athletes?
youcanifIcan
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ wealth shown to scale. zoom in keep scrolling right
Yeld69
Holy shit...
Vesane
I still feel that nothing presents it better than Pixel Wealth. Life-changing perspective shift. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth
stoic000
I need to know why it says 4th highest 20% and not 2nd highest 20%
ForbinDallas
Yeah I tried to figure out why it said that for way too long. It definitely should be 2nd highest.
buttcreambandit
I know it’s a weird choice of words. But there’s 5 groups and that’s the “4th highest” group compared to say the “2nd lowest”
Atomic2
So then its.... 2nd highest, 4th lowest?
buttcreambandit
Fuck.. ya it’s a terrible choice of words
EtEllerAndet
I am enjoying the final few seasons of 'murica
NihilisticOptimist
TheFastpaws
Until Americans start to drag the rich into the streets and do what needs to be done nothing will change.
ciscoxing626
Until wealth equity returns the rich should assume at least 75% of the tax burden
Rainbowdaesh
Also a good one. https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
ishouldprobablybeworkingrightnow
I can't. It's depressing
r333
Damn
Peffse
At first I was like "Oh, that's not nearly as bad as I thought-" then I saw the dates. It's as bad as I thought isn't it.
buttcreambandit
It’s worse. Economy’s like this are extremely fragile. It is going to fail. Hard. As it always had when it’s like this. And 95% of us will
buttcreambandit
Feel the worst of it. Hopefully after the fighting and suffering we rebuilt it better. And don’t let it slip again. But probably not
secretagentdoubleobeaver
The percentiles don't add up
Shpielers
Not sure how you're looking at it, but they do for me.
MissySassy
How do you know which class you're in? I never understood what middle class and second lowest cost and all of that stuff meant.
MKESewerRat
Theoretically, middle class means working 8 hours entitles you to roughly 8 hours of someone else's labor.
buttcreambandit
I edited for you. I’m sure others had that question to, thanks for pointing it out. Also those are rough based off data not exact. But close
buttcreambandit
Well only about 10% of households make over 200k, another 10% are around 100-200. The other 80 are under that woth about 18% or so at 75-100
Shpielers
TIL I'm somehow considered in the top 20%. Sure doesn't feel like it, but I know I have it better than many.
buttcreambandit
That’s because you are really in what should be considered the middle class. The wealth gap is just so insane it puts you in the top 20
buttcreambandit
Assuming your household income is somewhere between 100-250k
ChaosPersonified
I like this one, personally: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:2006.4,2021.4
LANAAAAAAAAAA
Doot
myamazeballz
Thank you
greentights
I also want to point out that there's a huge difference between top 20% & top 1%. Million vs billion is a billion.
AmyIsAwesome
TheEvenPrez
. also tax the fucking rich
activeracer28
Weird how the rich gained so much starting in 2003 when we went to war. And again in 2020 when Trump cut their taxes.
Chronomechanist
Also that there has been an increase for the bottom 50% since Biden became president.
dohcohv
2003 was when real estate prices started increasing, which is why you see it drop drastically after 2008.
Randomice
But the politicians (in the 2-10%) are being bought by the 1% to keep the other 90% in line.
buttcreambandit
Not keeping us in line. They’re keeping us fighting eachother
pseudopseudonym
Most politicians aren't don't make the top 10% actually. Like many things to do with wealth in the US ideological adherence by people
pseudopseudonym
who don't personally benefit is a major factor.
iusedtodream
In many cases, via the police and courthouse.
RealityIsOftenDisappointing
Slave owners will always need loyal slave drivers...
servingmytimeinusersub
This may be one of the profound and succinct comments I've ever seen on here.
eiger3970
Wealth distribution is an age old issue. Maths should be able to demonstrate a fair model, then invent/use the tech for that system.
Shpielers
Except the people at the top would then immediately do everything in their power to squash it. Like pitting the people against each other...
eiger3970
Thieves usually aren't smart enough. Imagine a tech that was unstoppable and could not be decrypted. No profits takes time to spread though