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I'm not sure where your numbers come from, but your off by 2 orders of magnitude (are you talking income?). According to Wikipedia the wealth of the top 1% is 29 trillion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Uni...).



The wealth of the top 4 richest people is ~300 billion, he's way off.


I've took it from [0]. It does seems like numbers are very approximate everywhere, but even than, let's take 29 trillion and distribute it between 327 million population: we get 88.6k$ per person, still not enough to buy housing in most parts of US.

- [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-1-percent-dont-know-what...


Only if you think of single-occupancy homes. A married couple with 2 kids will be around 350k USD, peanuts for California but enough to buy a home for the family in many places in the US.




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