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How much wealth do you think is out there?
If 99% of the wealth belonged to 1% of the people, using last years federal income tax revenue ($5.09 trillion) as an example, that would have to mean 99% of the people (let's guess 350 million without concern of age, etc.) only have $50 900 million to divide amongst themselves. That's only just short of $150 per head; if you divide that "evenly" into family units of three, that's still only $450 per family.
That also has to mean that 1% of the people - 3.5 million people - would be paying $5.03 trillion dollars in tax revenue.
That's how insane the numbers would need to be if you factor in non-capital as "wealth." If there was really that much wealth in existence, distributed across a lot of people, we would be in such a state of extreme hyperdeflation and market oversaturation. Anyone who dare spoke about resource exhaustion would blanch when faced with the accumulated mass (the earth would probably have a greater tilt to it too). If there really was that much wealth in existence, in a concentrated location, it would make itself worthless.