[grumple]

The top decile and bottom already are below that ratio. ~90k gets you to the top 10%. 10k puts you at the bottom 10% (not a full time worker). The problem is really the wealth of the top 10%.

See the top households:

Net Worth of the 10%, 1%, and .1% Households Percentile Threshold 10% 2% 1% 0.10% Net Worth $1,182,390.36 $5,816,220.17 $10,374,030.10 $43,090,281.00

The top 1% owns 35% of the wealth in this country. the next 9% own 40%. The bottom 50% own 1.67% of the wealth. That's the problem. Most people are paycheck to paycheck with little opportunity for wealth creation / stability. Most of this is inherited wealth; the wealthy today, across not just the US, but the globe, are largely descended from the wealthy of many generations past. There's a great study on the gravity of wealth from the UK:

https://www.cnbc.com/2013/10/30/whats-in-a-name-wealth-and-s...

[Dylan16807]

Sorry, I phrased that wrong, I'm not talking about the numbers exactly at 10% and 90%. I mean the total of 0-10 and the total of 90-100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

It's not the people at 90% that are getting way too much money. It's the people above them.