NikkiDimes , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Are you not conflating top 10% of wealthy people with top 10% of wealth? Looking at these differently vastly changes the results, e.g.:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a0ee2ea3-5881-4d7c-9b2f-abd12f45c1d3.png

Of course, in the real world numbers are much more skewed and you have hundreds of millions in developing nations at the bottom making literal pennies a day, bringing the “top 10%” of wealth (not top 10% of wealthy people) to include some single mom making 45k in the US.