Just being born in the US already makes you a top 10% and very likely top 5-1% in terms of global wealth. The top 1% you're harping about is very likely yourself.

> Just being born in the US already makes you a top 10%

Our family learned how long-term hunger (via poverty) is worse in the US because there was no social support network we could tap into (for resource sharing).

Families not in crisis don't need a network. Families in crisis have insufficient resources to launch one. They are widely scattered and their days are consumed with trying to scrape up rent (then transpo, then utilities, then food - in that order).

And so many people in the US are already miserable before yet another round of "become more efficient and productive for essentially the same pay or less as before!!"

So maybe income equality + disposable material goods is not a good path towards people being happier and better off.

It's our job to build a system that will work well for ourselves. If there's a point where incentivizing a few to hoard even more resources to themselves starts to break down in terms of overall quality of life, we have a responsibility to each other to change the system.

Look at how many miserable-ass unhappy toxic asshole billionaires there are. We'll be helping their own mental health too.

So what? If that's the case, they clearly mean the 0.0001% or whatever number, which is way worse.