@djc again, there’s a lot of mischief in the denominators here. what is the wealth of the bottom 50%? roughly 3% of total wealth. you can argue that if trends in that chart continue indefinitely — continue indefinitely as a multiplicative process, in percentage rather than dollar terms — eventually we’d meaningfully equalize. that’s quite a conjecture. 1/

@djc but in fact what this chart shows is a 52% increase on roughly 3% against (top 1%) 8% on 31%. Work that out and you get like 60% more dollars flowing to the top 1% than to the bottom 50%.

( i’m taking my rough figures from here. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wealth-distribution-in-america/ ) /fin