Curren population is 347.533.640

99.9 => 347.533 people

99 - 99.9 => 3.127.802 people

99 - 90 => 31.625.562 people

99 - 50 => 142.141.258 people

50 - 0 => 173.766.820 people

Multiply the population by the percentage? (I didn't find anything on that page suggesting that it wouldn't be the case.)

342 million * 0.5 = 171 million people who are in the bottom yellow line. The top darker green line is 342 million * 0.001 = 342 thousand people

I think you can do the others yourself if you like.

Around 350M Americans, so the bottom 50% is about 175M, next 49%'s about the same, top 1% is 3.5M, top 0.1% is 350K people.

Those last 9 percent might be hard to convince since they're already doing quite well.

I don't think it's comforting at all.

If you remove the top 1%, the remaining wealth is concentrated in the top 10%. This group of people is highly invested in the status quo; their wealth and power is usually used to prop up the current system.

These people are reffered to by many names: petit bourgeoisie, professional managerial class, small business tyrants, etc.

Power that can't be deployed is by definition not power at all though, right?

Odd observation

The top 1% owns about 30% of the wealth, and the top 10% owns about 67% according to this graph. That doesn't seem too far fetched, I wouldn't assume absolutely every statistic has been manipulated quite yet.

I am underneath the map