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Re:A Tech-Driven Boom Is Coming; Please Be Patient by drdrey on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:04PM (#16023239)
> more people are working to get into the top 1%

I don't think that's how the top 1% works

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Re:A Tech-Driven Boom Is Coming; Please Be Patient by idrios on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:14PM (#16023297)
He's not wrong. In 2010 there were 6.93 billion people in the world. In 2015 there were 7.35 billion. By that calculation, 4.2 million people moved into the top 1% in the span of just 5 years!
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