Where in 99% do you rank?
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- popfodders0
- You feel like a troll, right?utopian
- more like a happy bunny!popfodders
- Tausk0
Even being in 2% $360k to $500k is something.
- drgs0
76%
- ukit20
It just goes to show how badly off most people are
- no, they are FAR better off than most people on Earth, it goes to show how jealous they are.popfodders
- I've done some traveling and I've seen 3rd world countries where the poorest people eat fresher food than memonospaced
- they raise families and are very happy... their quality of life is better than that of the USA's poorestmonospaced
- Being poor is a western centrism on their value of goods and living standards.Tausk
- I understand. Poor in America is worse for some reason. Cheap food will kill you here.monospaced
- You have a point on food, but come on, everything else, dude!?popfodders
- Of course. I'm no extremist. I've seen some really sad, sick, fat poor dying people here smoking cigarettes and it's sadmonospaced
- sad, and the poorest in some poor countries can go fishing, they can build a shelter, and that's all forgotten heremonospaced
- ukit20
- Its more to do with where everyone here fits in to the mixTausk
- yeah, why did you all of a sudden turn this into an argument? All he was doing is asking... *sighpopfodders
- The WSJ one gives you no sense of the scale.ukit2
- The point is, there is amazing inequality. 1% and 99% are just slogans.ukit2
- zaq0
- Knuckleberry0
63%
- monospaced0
80%
- monospaced0
I just realized that we're essentially posting our salaries.
- Tausk0
I wish they would do it for regional variations. Living in NYC and being part of 20% of the population means nothing in comparison to making the same amount in another cheaper city.
- TOTALLY. I rent a tiny apt on my salary in NYC. I could own two large houses in the rest of the country.monospaced
- i think the point was teh Occupy mvmt is against the entire 1%, regardless of location.
supersimple - Someone said, subtracting 30% of your salary is what you would make in another city.Tausk
- supersimple, exactly but $500k makers dont have the power like most OWS people think they do.Tausk
- kirshar120
66% for me, and I'm counting me and my significant others' income, so my salary is still safe from you data miners.........
- Tausk0
Average at Goldman Sachs is $430,700 including bonus. Most of them are below 1%.
- Tausk0
^ actually that was last year.
This year its $292,836
- monospaced0
Influence doesn't really start until you start making tens of millions. So many actors and sports stars in this country fall into this category. CEOs and the like also, and they're the ones people focus on. I don't know where I was going with this, but ... oh yeah, I remember, I was saying that being in the 1% is one thing, but it's the guys making the real wealth that should be the focus, not the happy dudes making $500K.
- tasty0
I honestly believe no one's salary needs to exceed 200K - if you need more than that to live then you're exceeding your needs. This coming from someone who makes a little more than 1/4th of that.
The presidents salary is 400K, in what world should a CEO make more than someone running the entire country?
Cap the Salaries. Cap the bonuses, and distribute them based on each penny you've contributed to the US economy, not on your title.
Waste not, want not.
- I could EASILY use $200K/yr and spend every cent before I was totally satisfiedmonospaced
- You want it, but you don't need it. Most likely.Jaline
- if I ever want to buy a house and start a family in Manhattan that's what I'd need, basicallymonospaced
- This would not be capping the household income at 200K, essentially you and your wife could make 400K. + bonuses.tasty
- monospaced0
The tax on dividends is a tiny percentage. Therefore, the rich who live off of capital gains are not really paying much. Maybe I'm misunderstood, someone correct me if I am.
- Tausk0
^ at that logic, freelance rate should be capped. Agency fees should be capped. Everything is capped.
- The salary payout is capped, the rest is business capital and stored for down times.tasty
- Where does that extra money go? Share holders and owners. Who makes money on capital gains.Tausk
- I can admit there is a flaw in my logic because you can just start hiding money in walls. But i think there needs to be a reality check of how much it takes to live vs. how much it takes to live lavishly.tasty
- of how much it takes to live vs. how much it takes to live lavishly.tasty
- can't*tasty
- popfodders0
OK, a little off topic, but this is just absurd.
Patrizia Reggiani, Ex-Wife To Gucci Heir, Refuses Parole
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…-------------------
Because she doesn't want to work, she stays in jail. LOL!
- blahTausk
- sorry... I know, I knoooowpopfodders
- Cuntpunch required.5timuli
- ukit20
"Number indicated is the percentile of income among all tax-filing units."
The statistic that gets repeated the most in this context is that "1% of the population controls almost 40% of the wealth."
But this WSJ calculator doesn't seem to measure wealth, only income. And the further up the scale you are, the more likely to rely on wealth rather than take home pay.
So, maybe not too surprisingly, it seems WSJ skewed this to make it seem more equitable than things really are.
- WSJ > Rupert Murdoch >
Fox News > Republican
Teabaggers!utopian
- WSJ > Rupert Murdoch >