[standardUser]

In a society with 100 people where 99 make $1/year and 1 makes $1000/year you would have an even more absurd ratio. That ratio may be shocking and useful for political arguments.

But isn't the real issue that 1 person is making a thousand times what everyone else makes? And wouldn't it be truly absurd to expect those 99 to pay more instead of the 1%?

[sokoloff]

Not enough information provided to say.

If that 1 person was producing all the food for the other 99, I wouldn't find that to be a problem at all.

[lowercased]

might be that one person merely owns the IP for the grain the other 99 buy and grow and sell to each other for their food.