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The 1% — wealth concentration examined

The top percentile of wealth holders in most countries own more than the bottom half combined — a concentration that would have been recognizable to any court economist of the ancient world, and which carries the same implications it always has: that political power tends to follow financial power, and that systems designed by the wealthy tend to preserve their advantages. This is observation, not resentment; the data does not require moral drama to be significant.

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