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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love all the defensiveness among those in the 95th percentile. "We're rich? But we're barely getting by!"

That's exactly the point. You are the 99%. You, and me, and everyone on DCUM, and everyone living in a van down by the river.

Play with the chart a bit -- it only takes a few thousand a year to bump you up a % or down a %. But try as you might, you'll *never* break 99% as long as you're working for a living.

The top 1% don't make a few hundred thousand more than you do -- they make *millions* more than you do. Every year. And most of them do it without working at all.

Count your blessings that you have what you have for a minute, and then get really, really angry that the 1% want you to pay a higher proportion of your hard-earned income in taxes so they can continue to build wealth effortlessly.[/quote]

Actually, after playing around with it a bit, I have found the exact number that separates the 99% from the 99.5%:  $815,859 
One dollar more puts you into the 99.5% category.  So while I'm 98%, 99.5% isn't so out of reach.

By the way, one way to look at this is by thinking literally about it.  Out of 100 people, a 96%er is making more than 95 of the 100.  Picture 100 people, say at a baseball game.  You make $290K as a 96% person.  Are you really surprised that of the 100 people around you at a baseball game, only three of them make more than you?[/quote]

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