>>>>>>An interesting article and insight into the 1% ...
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>>>>>>"Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win"
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>>>>>>http://www.businessinsider.com/an-investment-managers-view-2013-11
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>>>>>What percent are you?
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>>>>>http://www.globalrichlist.com/
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>>>>Doesn't work for negative net-wealth values. Safe to say, therefore, not in the top 1%.
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>>>>The article is nicely written though. An eye opener for the wannabe rich and a wake-up call to wealth inequality generally.
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>>>Plug your income into that website, and tell us what you get.
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>>What does it matter?
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>You're fantastically wealthy but all you care about it is how much wealthier other people are.
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>"I'm not rich!" you say.
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>The article makes it obvious that even people richer than you think the exact same thing. That its tough to get by on $300K a year.
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>If you don't think you're rich enough, why should expect others to think they are rich enough?
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>Do you expect them to simply give away their money until you both have more equal amounts?
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>How is that not greed and jealousy?

Mike - did you actually read the article? It says that the top 0.5% or 0.1% aren't just doing better than everyone else (which is tautological). It's says they're doing so by activities that are harmful to the economy as a whole. Opposing that is not class envy.

Tamar