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Global Top 10% Wealth: ~$93,170 (2018)).
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Global Top 10% Income: ~$39,382 annually (PPP-adjusted).
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I immediately started searching this up on seeing the article. Should've known someone in the comments already beat me to it. Thanks for the links!
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The threshold to be in the top 10% is €42,980 or $49,000 (grossing from what I can tell).
The top 1% and 0.1% for comparison are 20x and 76x.
As of February, 2025, you need to have $970k per https://finance.yahoo.com/news/among-wealthiest-heres-net-worth-173043075.html
Edit: in the United States
Yeah, what people forget is that even average americans (and central/northern europeans and some other plaves) are quite wealthy from a global perspective. Many people on lemmy, self included, are in that global 10%.
And many of those emissions aren't something you can just avoid either, they often come as a result of being a user of local infrastructure etc.
And half the time they get mad when you point it out.
In fairness, what are they going to do about being born into a richer slice of the world pie? As shitty as it is, people won't have much sympathy for those doing worse than them unless they've achieved a certain baseline. If they can't conceive of how life could be worse (many issues in this fragment), they won't accept or care that others are suffering.
At the very least, us 10%ers could be advocating for things that lower the carbon cost of our lifestyle, such as zoning reform.
Note that I'm not talking about reducing the quality of our lifestyle. I'm talking about maintaining or improving the quality while making it more efficient.
It's true. And we should all be doing that. If you're in the US, I promise you there are people in your community/local government who are desperate for any sort of support. Build bike lanes, build community gardens, help your neighbors. A lot of them need it.
My previous statement was purely in reply to people getting mad when you point out that they're in a certain percentile. Realistically, what do you expect people to do with that information? What you're basically telling them is that in Sudan, they'd be the kings of the castle. But that's kind of useless information to someone living in middle of nowhere Kentucky, for example.
If my taxes would go towards make that infrastructure sustainable, i would happily pay more taxes. As it stands my taxes mostly go to more Autobahn, upkeep of parking spots, subsidies for desastrous industries and cross-financing the retirement insurance, so the boomers can go on cruise vacations.
Is there a source for this?
This was my assumption, but when I searched earlier, I could only find sources citing the top 12% was above $100k
I'm assuming I've misunderstood something.
The article talks about income (the headline seems a bit confusing), the wiki about net worth?
According to Wikipedia, citing the 2022 US census, median annual personal income is $48k, meaning the average american is right on that line.
So, likely everyone in the developed world, not just billionaires.
No most people in the developed nations earn less than this. It's heavily biased towards Americans and high earners, the typical just above the minimum wage earner isn't in this group.
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Can we do top 1% so that I don't feel included?
Nice to see the phrase "global heating" instead of the wimpy "global warming" or the even more milquetoasty "climate change". I prefer the phrase "anthropogenic runaway global heating" because it makes clear the scale and severity of the problem as well as its origin, and also for the handy acronym.
I sometimes call it "planet destruction" or "stupidity of mankind"
Yeah, but those phrases can apply to a whole lot of things.
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Wealth is the great filter
Context and after some searching
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Global Top 10% Wealth: ~$93,170 (2018)).
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Global Top 10% Income: ~$39,382 annually (PPP-adjusted).
Wealth source
Income source
Two-thirds of global heating caused by us here, study suggests (shocker)
And in other news water is still wet
What do we do, set our inflation target to -2% instead?
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