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50. There was an exit poll in the early 'aughts that showed 19% of Americans thought that they were in or soon would be...

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Wed Sep 24, 2025, 06:20 AM

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In the top 1%. In truth, probably none of them ever were.

My own story. In 1998 for a couple of months, I was in the top 10% of people who got W-2s. By the time I left that field 25 years later, I was in the very low middle.

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