$34,000/yr is what it takes to be in the world’s top 1%.
i had to remind someone of this today, an American like me who was complaining about the rich get richer and all that. I mean, yeah, American’s an oligarchy, not a democracy. We were supposed to be “better than all that”.
But really, we have hardly anything to complain about, money-wise.
$34,000/yr is what it takes to be in the world’s top 1%.
Where you’re born, well, that’s a bit of an accident really or providence, depending on how you look at things.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/
Some things have improved but other things got worse. I’d say that socially things have never changed. in any society. A few powerful on top with everybody else making do.
The only exceptions are smaller communities and countries. They can manage a social structure of wealthier citizens, which is basically what you’re talking about.