One can of course always argue over what percentile makes you which class (and to to what degree percentiles are useful for this question in the first place).
As for the question of influence, Piketty for example, while calling the top 10% the “upper class”, calls the top 1% the “ruling class”, which seems like a decent way to undercore this point.
One can of course always argue over what percentile makes you which class (and to to what degree percentiles are useful for this question in the first place).
As for the question of influence, Piketty for example, while calling the top 10% the “upper class”, calls the top 1% the “ruling class”, which seems like a decent way to undercore this point.