(December 14, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Heywood Wrote:(December 14, 2014 at 9:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I loves me some equivocation. You two aren't even remotely talking about the same thing. I think you know this, Heywood.
We are talking about the 1% of the population that has the highest income....those which can afford to buy their way into any country they want. We are talking about rich bastards like Minimalist.
Oddly enough, by the standarda in that link, I too am in the top 1% worldwide income-wise. Yet, I seem to lack both the financial resources and the connections to buy myself out of much of anything. Somehow, that income doesn't seem to make me such a "rich bastard" in any developed country, which if I'm not too terribly mistaken, was what he was referring to: the top 1% elite in developed countries. Which, incidentally, doesn't include either he or I. That isn't what he was referring to when he spoke of the 1%.
