0.1% of the population owns over 85% of the wealth. Something is going to break soon, and it isn't going to be pretty.
The US Income distribution does not look like a "Bell Curve". It is an "L-Curve": a gradual ramp for 99% of the population forming "horizontal branch" and a steep spike at top reacing beyond stratosphere. The disparity is so great it is difficult to represent on single graph. To comprehend it...
www.lcurve.org
If we divided the income of the US into thirds, we find that the top ten percent of the population gets a third, the next thirty percent gets another third, and the bottom sixty percent get the last third. If we divide the wealth of the US into thirds, we find that the top one percent own a third, the next nine percent own another third, and the bottom ninety percent claim the rest. (Actually, these percentages, true a decade ago, are now out of date. The top one percent are now estimated to own between forty and fifty percent of the nation's wealth, more than the combined wealth of the bottom 95%.)
That's the way it's always been all over the world forever.
Even back to kings who owned the gold, the land, the treasures, the castle, and he had all of his subjects that were poor farmers, cattle drivers, blacksmiths and chamber pot cleaners.
You're focused on a catchphrase and a slogan than considering everything else.
The few that have the most money all earned that money by creating something, growing it, feeding it, being savvy and expanding. Not very many people are capable of doing that, if anyone could just "be a millionaire" we would all be millionaires and they would still be poor because a millionaire would be bottom line and the over achievers would be trillionaires.
Like me. I'm a blue collar guy and that's why I am. I like being a blue collar guy because it's what I born to be. I work, I own my house, my car, I have a cool game room with a PS5 and a nice pc, I have plenty of food to eat, 1.5 acres of land, have a nice queen sized bed with a 4k uhd Samsung tv to watch I am in it. I don't need a lot. I'm happy with what I have. Sure a million dollars would be cool, but I don't need it.
Equal wealth is stupid. If we all had equal wealth we wouldn't have smart phones, international airlines, high speed internet, laproscopy surgery, and mcdonalds. The drive for money is what got us those things. It's what drives people to push for better technology and advances, money, esteem, power. The few people wired to get those things and maintain them are the ones who push us forward. If everyone was equal there would be no need to drive and be richer or better. We would languish in mediocrity.
And most people have done nothing to earn what the 95% have, so why complain they don't have it?
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