• Aux@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Top 1% workers, not top rich.

    Look, here’s a thing. 40% of all land in England is owned just by around 200 families. And they are laughing their arses off when they hear that peasants earning £181k per annum are rich.

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      3 days ago

      Top 1% of income from all sources which includes your 200 mega rich families. 1% of 70m people is 700k people. Of course the top 0.1% are way richer.

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        3 days ago

        No, these 200 families don’t have PAYE income at all. Man, you people are so ignorant… No wonder the rich play you like the fools.

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          3 days ago

          So? A lot of people dont have PAYE income, they still have income. What point are you trying to make? Are you trying to argue that £181k doesnt put you in the top 1%?

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            3 days ago

            His point is the only really rich people are the fantastical ones in his mind and are cartoonishly rich instead of just real life rich cause it’s easier to draw a dividing line and come to an answer.

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      3 days ago

      If you’re earning that much money, you’ll pretty quickly end up in the 1% of net worth.

      And these people earn around 10x the typical household income.