Wealth Inequality: The Top 1% Explained

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Wealth, what a household owns, gets separated from income, which resets each paycheck, then a Lorenz curve for the U.S. shows the bottom 50 percent holding 2.5 percent against the top 1 percent's 30 percent, before Gini scores of 0.85 here get compared against 0.63 in Japan.

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