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Can everyone in the world be rich?
Contrary to popular belief, “everyone has the same opportunity to acquire wealth,” says Steve Siebold, a self-made millionaire. But not everyone seizes the opportunity. To find out if you’re doing all that it takes to set yourself up for a rich future, we’ve rounded up 10 signs that you’re not on the right path.
How much money do the richest 10 have?
As of Q1 of 2021, the top 10 percent held 69.8 percent of total U.S. net worth (which is the value of all assets a person holds minus all their liabilities). The top 1 percent held about half of that wealth – 32.1 percent, while the next 9 percent held approximately another half at 37.7 percent.
What is it like to work for the rich?
It is a lot of hard work, and generally requires much more personal aspects of yourself going into your business. See, people only work for the rich because they trust them – to give them a job with regular pay, to provide benefits, to provide something better than the alternative to working for them.
Can every one of US be rich?
That kind of definition logically allows that each and every one of us can in fact simultaneously be rich, in addition to having the potential to become rich. That’s because, in a world of over-abundance, it is indeed logically possible for every one of us, i.e., “everybody”, to have more than is needed.
What percentage of Americans earn 578 times more than others?
The richest 0.01 percent of Americans — the one percent of the one percent — earn an average income 578 times higher than everyone else. Even if Zell thinks they work harder, does he really think that they work 578 times harder?
Are the rich happier than the poor?
The rich are more than twice as likely as the poor to report that they are completely satisfied with their job, that they are very happy with life overall, and that they rarely or never experience stress. With a job like that, who wouldn’t want to work harder?