How to Join the 1%

[The Brain]

I put in my personal income but said it is a 2 person household to account for my boyfriend.

You guys living together Marti? 

No, we prefer to live separately

Just like you and me!

[crazy canuck]

I wonder if Marti would pay me to keep us apart 

[Berkut]

Here is another tool - but it makes no provision for size of family at all.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

You're in the top
0.07%
richest people in the world by income.

That cannot possibly be right.

[Razgovory]

If 2 billion people survive on less then five bucks a day, I think it could easily be correct.  Americans are rich.  It's actually quite a bit of eye opener even compared to our Euro brethren.  Even the rich countries of Europe like Germany, Britain and France have average wealth levels in the West Virginia range or lower.

[Monoriu]

We need income/wealth calculators for each individual country, and preferrably another one for languishstan 

[Admiral Yi]

PM me your gross income Mono and I'll start on it.

[Monoriu]

PM me your gross income Mono and I'll start on it.

You got me 

[Josquius]

So the next question is how do people get into those universities 

Have parents in at least the top 10%.

[Syt]

You're in the top
0.86%
richest people in the world by income.

That makes you the
51,870,955th
richest person on earth by income.

[Brazen]

As a feminist I'm not sure if I should applaud or condemn the "marry a rich bird" approach to wealth

Too late for me to snag a successful bloke. I wasted my prime years and the decades since being the main (on only) bread winner in every bloody relationship

[Valmy]

So the next question is how do people get into those universities 

Have parents in at least the top 10%.

The top 10%? No to get in the best schools you either need to be talented but poor so you get scholarships or part of the elite. Being middling is a tough road to the kind of elite prep schools that typically get you into the Ivies.

[Valmy]

As a feminist I'm not sure if I should applaud or condemn the "marry a rich bird" approach to wealth

You could be neutral about it.

Too late for me to snag a successful bloke. I wasted my prime years and the decades since being the main (on only) bread winner in every bloody relationship

You just need to find one with a thing for historical re-enacting.

[garbon]

So the next question is how do people get into those universities 

Have parents in at least the top 10%.

The top 10%? No to get in the best schools you either need to be talented but poor so you get scholarships or part of the elite.

I'm pretty sure that I wasn't either of those two options.

[Valmy]

I'm pretty sure that I wasn't either of those two options.

I was talking about attending the schools the put large numbers of people in those Universities. If it sounded like I was making a statement about every single person ever then I was not.

However I guess if 10% means simply making slightly above minimum wage I would guess that would be true but not particularly useful. Just have at least one parent with a job of some kind and you will get into an elite university.

[garbon]

I'm pretty sure that I wasn't either of those two options.

I was talking about attending the schools the put large numbers of people in those Universities. If it sounded like I was making a statement about every single person ever then I was not.

Let me revise that. I would go so far as to say most of the people who I went to school with (or at least as far as I know) were not poor enough for great scholarships, nor were they part of a group that would be called 'elite.'