There is a huge gulf between the poorest 10% and the top 50%.
Every other American is in the bottom 10%, and 1 in ~7,500 are in the top 10%.
If I were a gambling man I wouldn't take those odds.
1 in 10 Americans are in the bottom 10%.
i.e., the bottom 50% of Americans population-wise own 10% of the overall wealth, while the top 7,500 people (0.002% population-wise) own 10% of the overall wealth.
That said, those numbers are actually overly optimistic. The wealth chart offered up by the federal reserve show the bottom 50% population-wise only own 2.5% of the wealth. Particularly alarming (though not surprising) is how much that share has shrunk in the last 20 years.
See: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
Still, a quick google search says Europe's bottom 50% own only 1.2% of the wealth there.
I'm from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the poorest location in America. I have memories of my uncles sleeping in the snow, 14 people stuffed into a 2 bedroom home, dirty streets and boredom being the norm, no jobs and what little money was to be had spent across state lines in White Clay for cheap liquor.
There are far more of people like us than there are the people living the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. Don't stab your brother in the back in hopes of being one of them.