How to Join the 1%

[Valmy]

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.'

Yeah now that I reflect on it you probably know more about people in elite universities than me anyway. Since I did not attend one.

However surely each person had at least one parent making $10 an hour or more.

[Zanza]

It is really hard to get data on income (on a worldwide basis), but here is a neat calculator to play with :

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i

How do you calculate net income? Is it just gross minus taxes? Is it gross minus social security contributions (mandatory/voluntary)? 

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is really hard to get data on income (on a worldwide basis), but here is a neat calculator to play with :

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i

How do you calculate net income? Is it just gross minus taxes? Is it gross minus social security contributions (mandatory/voluntary)? 

I took it to mean the money paid into your bank account after all deductions.

[lustindarkness]

I would be a lot closer to the 1% if there was more poor people in the world.

[Archy]

My household is in 8,1%. I'm surprises Om this high for a liter middel classic household

[Razgovory]

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

The good thing about marrying a English Civil War reenactor, is that if they try to shoot you, you have a like 30 seconds between the time when they pull the trigger and when the gun actually goes off to think of a way to escape.

[lustindarkness]

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

The good thing about marrying a English Civil War reenactor, is that if they try to shoot you, you have a like 30 seconds between the time when they pull the trigger and when the gun actually goes off to think of a way to escape.

Nah, but there is a 30 second loading/reload.

[Razgovory]

Get a lot of hangfires with fuse and flashpan.

[Josquius]

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.

Top 10% would encompass very upper middle class people and even the poorer upper class people.
These are the ones who have the connections that let them get into the top schools.

[Ideologue]

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.

.65% for me.  This is a retarded calculator using retarded rules that do not account for PPP.

It also doesn't allow for negative numbers when calculating for wealth.