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Re:The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt ... by jeremysmyth on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:05PM (#11472493)
I would guess that a large proportion of people reading this comment have incomes in the top 1% globally.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615...

Interestingly, this is less likely to be the case in wealth terms; many people globally with a lot of wealth (e.g. in agricultural land) have relatively low incomes, and the opposite is also true.

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Re:The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt ... by bzbarsky on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:46PM (#11475393)
Measuring wealth without adjusting for lifecycle effects (which is how it's usually done) is a meaningless exercise. A doctor four years into his or her career almost certainly has negative wealth, while any retiree not solely depending on a government pension presumably has some reasonable wealth.
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