Let’s see if the demographics of the Dope reflect that of society…at least based upon income and/or net worth.
Are you part of the 1%, meaning is your annual household income more than $750,000 or alternatively is your household net worth greater than $10 million? If either of these conditions are met then you can answer in the affirmative that you are part of the top 1%.
Poll is anonymous
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Note that on a global level, many more of us are in the one percent. “To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.”
Note that pie charts don’t show the percentages, whereas the bar-chart option does.
(but that looks like more than 1% !)
Currently 3/31 = 9.6%
Small sample, but skewing the dope toward the wealthy group.
Also, those that choose to answer this poll may skew toward a wee bit of bragging, even though it is anonymous.
Why…bragging to themselves? Those folks have more problems than they realize, and might need the extra income for mental health care.
I still don’t qualify by that standard.
At the risk of nitpicking, that probably doesn’t take purchasing power parity into account.
Someone who earns $10,000 a year in Burkino Faso may be the equivalent, or much more, of someone who earns $34,000 in the United States.
And now 3/67 = 4.5%.
You 99%ers, always bragging about your mental health.
Not part of the top. But things are lining up pretty good for retirement in about 5 years.
I just barely qualify.
It might have been more interested to ask for more data…say, top 1%, top 5%, 10%, 50%, etc. Looks like the current poll just has 99 dopers, not in the top 1% and 5 that are. It would be interesting to see where most break down (my WAG is that the majority of dopers would be in the top 10%, but that’s just a guess).
I’m a 1%er; I drink lowfat milk all the time.
???
What is the correlation between wealth and problems/mental health issues? Haven’t had personal experience with either, but I think it would be much easier to be wealthy than poor.
It was a joke, I believe. Someone mentioned anonymous bragging. Someone else said that suggested the need for mental health assistance.
Any bets about members of the top 0.1% or 0.01% in residence here?
I would guess zero or close to zero in those rarified levels, but that’s just my WAG. I’m actually surprised that 5 dopers out of 100 claim to be in the top 1%, to be honest (though, as another poster mentioned, this is 1% in the US…if we are looking at worldwide it’s a different matter).
I live in Germany, and the Handelsblatt writes that the distributioin is:
• Reichste 0,1%: Ab EUR 5.490.000
• Reichste 1%: Ab EUR 1.330.000
• Reichste 5%: Ab EUR 438.000
• Reichste 10%: Ab EUR 279.000
• Reichste 25%: Ab EUR 126.000
• Reichste 50%: Ab EUR 22.8000
(Reichste means “richest”, Ab means “more than”). So I will answer accordingly and ignore your 10 million. GAP Gemini writes that there are 1,280,000 millionaires in Germany. That fits just about right with the 1,330,000 € you need to be in the 1%.
I doubt we’ll ever qualify by income unless my wife is dragged kicking and screaming into a big time executive role.
Maybe by wealth, eventually. Obviously the thresholds will rise over time.