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Or that almost every person commenting in this thread should be aware that 'top 10%' means them.

Yes, this. And also that while the top 10% owns 87% of the stocks, it's also very likely that the top 0.1% owns 80% of the stocks.

I'm sure the top 0.1% will be blaming the top 0.001%...

It doesn't look like that from outside America.

Why? Because they can buy cheap TV's at Walmart?

American households have a good amount of discretionary spending, but for the ticket items that actually matter such as quality housing, healthy food and healthcare my money stretches a lot further in Western Europe, for median household income that is.

And top 10% household in Japan is about 10 million Yen ($67k)...

Hard to compare without looking at healthcare, social security and similar costs cutting into net income.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...

Even if adjusted by all those things the median American is doing very well while the Japanese are about on par with Southern/Eastern Europeans these days.