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10,000 people is a small number on the context of the entire US labour force but it is very far from being a small sample size.



The articles doesn't imply there are only 10,000 people?

Look at a quote just one group:

>"The largest group (9,143 businesses) is the professional, scientific, and technical services sector,"

If you add up all the categories mentioned you get 33,618 businesses above $1 Million


Same order of magnitude, still insignificant.


original OP here.

It's quite significant actually, if you visualize it correctly.

This article doesn't say there are 33,000 businesses making $1M a year (or you're right that's pretty small).

It says there are 33,000 businesses making a $1m a year that have only 1 full time employee. That's big.

Is it a commentary on the gig economy making 33,000 millionaires out of traditional business sectors? I'm not saying that's true, but something is shifting and it's big.




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