Forum Post: Top 1% jobs
Posted 12 years ago on Jan. 16, 2012, 10:37 a.m. EST by smartcapitalist
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Nice infographic by NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-one-percent-occupations/index.html
I find it hard to believe 380,000 maids and butlers make in excess of 506,000 USD per year as this chart says (.2% of the 1.9 million in the industry).
Something tells me they are using some other methodology for determining who is in the 1%.
1% is actually $370k a year.
Doesn't change my thinking at all. Hard to imagine that even 150,000 maids in this country are making 370,000 USD a year.
You never know. They could be the maids of the super rich.
wtf...the 1% doesn't work except maybe to go to meetings to decide the world's fate
So going to a meeting is not work? Is flipping burgers the only work you can think of?
The majority of the 1% do not actually work.
No, they have people like "smartcapitalist" do the grunt work! lol could not resist that. Really investing over actual labor brings the greatest return.
LOL!. And, he gets all heated. He's the one who asked the question.
and the stats that support ur claim can be found where?
Most earn their living through the capital gain from investments. Here's a few articles that outline who the 1% are:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/who-are-the-1-percenters/2011/10/06/gIQAn4JDQL_blog.html
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/20/who-are-the-one-percent/
I understand that the richer you get, the more money you have to invest. But where does it say that most of the 1% ppl do not work?
It doesn't have to say it outright. It's obvious.
Here's another few articles:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/21/373507/cap-gains-richest-percent/?mobile=nc
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105
no it isnt... r u telling me that ppl like Gates, Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Welch became billionaires sitting on their asses like occutards? Are you telling me that traders, bankers, analysts at funds (like myself) most of whom are among the 1% (most make well above $370k a year) dont work? Aah i see. So only you guys work? is it now?
"sitting on their asses like occutards?"
so.... But where does it say that most of the occupy ppl do not work?
Again, to prove a majority you need to give me exact figures.Other than trust fund babies everyone has to work
Did I say ALL? I said the majority. Have a nice flight.
Again, to prove a majority you need to give me exact figures.Other than trust fund babies everyone has to work
Read the articles. Most of their income comes from investment, not actual work.
and where did they get the money to invest in the first place? Or how they get the stock options?
I don't know. I don't really care. But, to sit around at home buying stocks, transferring funds, calling your financial adviser, etc. is a type of work. It is the way they make their living and should be taxed the same as any other earned income.
While this is a VERY interesting piece of information, almost none of those people are in the real 1%. The real 1% are far and above all of those people, in fact they EMPLOY those 1%.
cud u pls define what u mean by 'the real 1%'?
Sure, the CEOs of large multi nationals, CEO's of the worlds banks, Bernanke, Geithner, rothschilds, all those fine folks that really control everything. Even the highest paid 'trader' making 300 million a year, controls NOTHING compared to these people.
Let me put it this way, if a person has a BOSS INSIDE the business in which pays him, he is not the 1%, its all the people above that.
For instance, the highest paid physician in the USA is not part of the problem, but the CEO's of some of the big pharma companies are, and their politician stooges
so the definition varies from person to person. there is no set definition of the 1%? so i can just say the 99% are poor people that dont want to work. but thats not true is it? so when you say that the 1 percent is above the 1 percent you kind of lose your credibility of making any sense.
Ah, so your's is an arbitrary definition then. Much like most of OWS demands, which too are arbit. So then this 1% of yours, what are they the 1% of?
Look at earlier ones too ... like number 22.
Start with number 26 of the "The Secret Rulers of the World" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3nPtXte1gs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3nPtXte1gs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL REAL Secret Rulers of the world ... numbers 22 >> or look at them all! These are the 1%.
wonder how anything that is put up on Youtube can be a secret. Then again, you guys are occutards
I am not a guy and I am a 64 year old woman! You asked who the real 1% were after you posted that chart of the 1% and someone tried to educate you to who the real 1% was. If you do not want to watch then continue to be brainwashed. Over and out!
Good job, karenpoore.
Thanks, but unfortunately a large portion of the 99% will not watch/read or open their minds and will remain in their little la la lands until it is to late. When someone turned me on to this information I was shocked at first (I continued to watch all the videos), but I soon connected the dots ... saw the forest over the trees.
True, but, keep working. Never give up the good fight.
And yet Ma'am you believe in this kind of garbage?
Sure do! Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, banks ... run the world and you!
ahah.... JPMC.. aah, they can barely manage their firm right now much less control the world
Damn, does this mean I'm going to have a problem repaying my $100k in debt for that womens studies major? Better spread the word: obviously, a lot of people haven't figured this out.
You spent 100k on a women studies major? Where did you think was applicable in the real world?
Who said anything about needing to be applicable?
How were you going to pay that off?
Well, I haven't yet. 've got $36,000 left and live on $750 a month :) I guess you are. Thanks for the tax cuts, btw. Nice how you accumulated all that debt. How are you going to pay for that? More tax cuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have no debt, I manage my money well and didn't get degrees in useless areas. I do enjoy tax cuts. They often make my day.
It's the little things in life.
That answers the question.
Yes I'm responsible with my money. I wish you best of luck with paying off your debt. May God bless you everyday.
No, I'm just mocking those that did, but somehow are now shocked at not being able to repay their debts. OWS is full of 20-something whiners that borrowed themselves silly for soft majors. Many of the "best and brightest" sure turned out to be stupid.
Asking the same thing.
Yeah, exactly. It never occurred to me just how stupid people had become. Truly, it isn't complicated. Borrowed money needs to be repaid; student loans are sticky. If you borrow, do it with some sense of the opportunity that lays ahead. If the opportunity is insufficient, you adjust by perhaps going to community college, taking longer, or working more. Not exactly genius-level stuff to figure out.
Here's a good article. Look at this dope. Assuming she has 15 years to go and the rate is 7%, she owes over $100k! Single mom for icing on the cake. She didn't understand the "ramifications" of having her mom co-sign. Wow. And she admits that she knew of a cheaper alternative and could've worked more.
But the article ends with selling us more government as it cheers Dodd-Frank. LOL. Government can never protect you from being this stupid.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/2012-01-12/private-student-loans-relief/52520848/1#uslPageReturn