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The proportion of people who will be in the top 1% of annual income for at least one year of their lives is quite high. I am too lazy to look it up now but I think it's about 20%.

The majority of people who earn a top 1% income only manage to do so for a short period.

As a consequence the overlap between top 1% by income and by wealth is small. They are (broadly speaking) different groups.



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