silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 11 months ago
silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 11 months ago
Yes it is. A large chunk of the richest countries’ middle class is the world’s top 10%. That includes most of the people reading this.
The first paragraph of the article is comparing the top 10% to the bottom 10% within the same country
People often forget that the top 10% include the top 1%.
I wonder how the statistics would look if the top 1% were removed from the equation.