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No. Unless you're happy to keep billions in abject poverty (and that does not ecen protect the environment) the aim is to have all humans on this planet live a good life in good conditions.

Therefore it's not "us vs them" it's all of us together and the root cause is indeed the overall number.

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If the top 1% would reduce their lifestyle to that of the next 10%, a lot would be gained right away. Private jets are evil.

You're thinking of the upper 0.01%. Global upper 1% starts at about $1M nw. Private jets are only really affordable at 9 figures.

The top 1% globally probably includes a good chunk of upper-middle class Americans (at least in the classic definition of upper middle class, maybe not in the informal “median income” sense that sometimes gets used). We like to point our fingers at private jets because they are particularly extravagant and we only need to take them away from a couple people, and they are a problem. But also heating McMansions and pushing around suburban SUVs ought to be avoidable.

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