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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Some folks seem to think that anybody that makes good choices in life is by definition corrupt.
(shrug)
The whole 1%-99% percent crap is all about reassuring people on the wrong side of the global economic downturn that they are in no way shape or form responsible for how their life has turned out; it's all really the fault of the faceless "elites". With "elites" being anybody who studied a discipline that is still in actual demand, working in a growing industry, or creating products that actually add something to the sum total of human achievement/enjoyment.
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For the vast majority the choices you make in life, other than the choice of your parents, actually have very little to do with whether you are part of the 1% or the 99%. Whether you studied a discipline that is still in demand or work in a growing industry may mean that you still have a job, it doesn't really have an effect on whether you can join that one percent.
This article is a little statistics heavy but it has a good historical analysis of what the 1%/99% divide actually means. I very much doubt that any poster on here is in the top 10%, who own 70% of the wealth in America, let alone the top 1%.