I'm going to shot your premise apart, especially considering you offered no sources to backup you contention that anyone making $60K a year is in the top 1%. From an AI search: As of September 1, 2026, the latest official median U.S. household income is $83,730 per year, for 2024. The Census Bureau’s official 2025 household-income estimate has not yet been released; its 2025 income statistics are scheduled for release on September 9, 2026. If you mean individual earnings, the 2025 median weekly earnings for full-time wage and salary workers were $1,204, equivalent to about $62,608 annually when multiplied by 52 weeks. -https://www.bls.gov If you ever took a statistics class, you'd understand "median" means half. Soooooo....... U.S. households: About 63.6% had annual income of $60,000 or more in 2024. This is the latest detailed Census-based distribution available. Wikipedia Individual full-time, year-round workers: The 2024 median earnings were about $63,360, so someone earning $60,000 would be near the middle—roughly around half of such workers, though not exactly because $60,000 is below the median. -https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-286.html At one point in my life I made a median income. But considering my jobs have included blue collar, logging, commercial fishing, taxi driver, bartender, restaurant operator, waiter, eight years in the US military as enlisted (I can assure you no enlisted is earning in the 1% bracket), followed by a career in IT when I graduated university at the ripe age of 40 - dude - I have never been anywhere near the 1%. And I don't have the personality. I actually have compassion for "working people" like myself.
