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In the 1970s, the One Percent accounted for about 10 percent of the national income in the United States.
Today, their share has more than doubled to above 20 percent.
The 0.1 percent in the U.S. today account for more than eight percent of the national income.
They are where the One Percent was 30 years ago.
Reich took the wealth of two admittedly very rich men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and he found that it was equivalent to the wealth of the bottom 40 percent of the U.S. population, 120 million people.
The middle class is spending more on schooling too, but in the global educational arms race that starts at nursery school and ends at Harvard, Stanford or MIT, the 99 percent is increasingly outgunned by the One Percent.
I think there was a Gallup survey out recently that said something like, in America, trust in banks is at an all-time low, it's something like 21 percent.
You know, when you are standing in line in Starbucks, 30 percent of transactions in Starbucks on any one day are actually being made with Starbucks Star points.
It's 50 percent above the category average.
And we did a survey that backs up the fact that, you know, 45 percent of people in this very crucial demographic in the U.S. were saying that they're comfortable using an independent or branded currency.
And the only thing that stopped that, the government controlled four percent of the supply, and the only thing that stopped it was the Civil War breaking out, and the government suddenly wanted to take control of the money.
And it's carving things down from the top, with 96 percent waste left over and only 4 percent product.
Five to 10 percent of the race car will be different every two weeks of the year.
If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.
Shift work is extraordinary, perhaps 20 percent of the working population, and the body clock does not shift to the demands of working at night.
If you sleep around about five hours or less every night, then you have a 50 percent likelihood of being obese.
My colleague Dan Freeman has used a range of agents which have stabilized sleep and reduced levels of paranoia in those individuals by 50 percent.
People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying.
Okay, so the bad news first: For every major stressful life experience, like financial difficulties or family crisis, that increased the risk of dying by 30 percent.
What it means is, if you have malaria in your society, your economic growth is depressed by 1.3 percent every year, year after year after year, just this one disease alone.
Indeed, we know from studies that only 20 percent of the bed nets that were first distributed were actually used.
Actually, about 80 percent of these are small business websites getting infected.
In fact, I've been spending a lot of time on Internet dating sites recently, obviously for research purposes, and I've noticed that about 60 percent of the profile pictures on Internet dating sites contain the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, which is kind of scary because you wouldn't give out your home address to lots of strangers, but we're happy to give away our GPS coordinates to plus or minus 15 meters.
Twenty-three percent of you have been to Starbucks recently and used the wireless network.
Forty-six percent of you I could link to a business, XYZ Employee network.
And two percent of you have a tendency to extreme profanity.
In the U.K., a 60 percent reduction since 2003, and there are similar statistics all over the world.
However, 99 percent of it works because people fail to do the basics.
There has been a 300 percent increase in crop production that requires bee pollination.
At least in the United States, an average of 30 percent of all bee hives are lost every winter.
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