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Worldwide, if you make over $32k per year you’re 1%. I suggest folks think carefully about this fact before suggesting hanging the rich or anything else Marxist-Leninist.

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Top 1% of earning, not necessarily top 1% of wealth.

I remember checking my moderately above average European income on a site that showed this. I think I was in or close to the top 1% of earners. But not being on the property ladder I think I was closer to top 6% by wealth. (It was a while ago so my numbers may be a bit out, but I hope you get the idea).

>> Top 1% of earning, not necessarily top 1% of wealth.

When it comes to hanging the rich nobody cares about such details.

On a moderate but above average salary in Spain. If I get some inheritance when my parents die and have my own apartment paid off, then I could be in the top 1% in 20 years time. I am by no means rich by western standards, just a bit above average. Do you suggest we hang all pensioners who have paid of their properties and earned a reasonable wage throughout their lives in Western Europe?

Jordan Peterson seems correct for a certain percentage of people when he says 'Middle Class Socialists don't like the poor but they hate the rich'. Your comment comes across as backing that up.

I suggest not hanging anybody. You have reading comprehension issues.

Get the fuck outta here with your strawmen.

I think you meant to say “strawpeople”. :-) But seriously, take a look at the Russian or Chinese revolution, and see who, predominantly, ended up in a ditch with a bullet in their head. In the case of Russia it was people who had barely above average wealth (successful farmers, small scale bourgeois, intelligentsia). In other words likely people like you.

Learn to argue without fallacies.

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