Here's an article that will kill your movement.....
Attention, Protestors: You're Probably Part of the 1%
In America, the top 1% earn more than $380,000 per year.
We are, however, among the richest nations on Earth.
How much do you need to earn to be among the top 1% of the world?
$34,000.
That was the finding World Bank economist Branko Milanovic presented in his 2010 book
The Haves and the Have-Nots. Going down the distribution ladder may be just as surprising.
To be in the top half of the globe, you need to earn just $1,225 a year.
For the top 20%, it's $5,000 per year.
Enter the top 10% with $12,000 a year.
To be included in the top 0.1% requires an annual income of $70,000.
According to the U.N., "Nearly half the world's population, 2.8 billion people, earn less than $2 a day."
According to the World Bank, 95% of those living in the developing world earn less than $10 a day.
Those numbers are so shocking that you might only think about them in the abstract.
But when you consider them in the context of the entire globe, including yourself, the skewing effects they have on the distribution of income is simply massive.
It means that Americans we consider poor are among some of the world's most well-off.
As Milanovic notes, "the poorest [5%] of Americans are better off than more than two-thirds of the world population." Furthermore, "only about 3 percent of the Indian population have incomes higher than the bottom (the very poorest) U.S. percentile."
Today, of Americans officially designated as 'poor,' 99 percent have electricity, running water, flush toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 percent have a television, 88 percent a telephone, 71 percent a car and 70 percent air conditioning. Cornelius Vanderbilt had none of these.
Nor does much of the world.
In short, most of those protesting in the Occupy Wall Street movement would be considered wealthy -- perhaps extraordinarily wealthy -- by much of the world. Many of those protesting the 1% are, ironically, the 1%.