Before entering this discussion I have some skepticism of the top 1% claim simply because it's composed by flexible variables - People who are in the top 1% in 2015 may not be in 2016, and so on, it depends, to an extent, on luck. How do we determine who's the top 1%?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you