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Re:A new analysis of how the world’s wealth is distributed by cm2187 on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:01AM (#13034819)
Globally. That mostly illustrate that the size of the population in developing countries is an order of magnitude larger than in developed countries. The number is kind of meaningless.

Percentiles makes more sense within a country. The only thing I found for the us is the article bellow which puts the threshold at $8.4 millions...

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-t...

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Re:A new analysis of how the world’s wealth is distributed by hkmurakami on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:04AM (#13034831)
Well parent is surprised that $750k only gets you 1%, despite the large population of developing nations -- the opposite of what you are supporting.
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Re:A new analysis of how the world’s wealth is distributed by nandemo on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:31AM (#13035099)
It's kinda ambiguous: it could mean either "a meager 750k" or "a meager top 1%".
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Re:A new analysis of how the world’s wealth is distributed by cm2187 on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:40AM (#13035441)
Yeah, you could read it as:

[750K only] gets you to top 1%?

or

750K [only gets you to top 1%]?

I read it the former

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