Everyone commenting on here wants to believe that they will become one of the top 1%.
No one here wants to contemplate what would happen if they fell to the bottom 1%.
"The bottom 1%" is a bit of a useless demographic to contemplate, because of power-law distributions. The bottom 1% will be dead within about 1.5 years[0].
How's that for contemplation?
[0] rough estimate from current world pop and global death rate, rounded up, can't be too far off
