&gt; given that the top 1% own 90%+ of the wealth.<p>Citation, please?  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publications.credit-suisse.com&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;render&#x2F;file&#x2F;?fileID=F2425415-DCA7-80B8-EAD989AF9341D47E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publications.credit-suisse.com&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;render&#x2F;file&#x2F;?fi...</a> page 24 claims that globally the top 8.1% own 84.6% of the wealth, while the top 0.7% own 45.2%.  So the top 1% owns something between those two numbers.<p>Within the US, the top 1% owns an even smaller fraction (of a bigger per-capita pie), because there are many fewer poor people.<p>That said, the top 1% do own quite a bit of wealth.  Same report, page 15, figure 2, looks to me like total global wealth is about $260 trillion as of 2015.  World population is 7.3 billion.  That comes out to $35000 per person or so.  So globally this number would in fact come out higher than a few thousand dollars; per our calculations above it&#x27;s about 0.5 to 0.85 times $35k (but note that this is including the the &quot;1%&quot; quite a large number of US retirees, for example; the threshold for 1% global wealth is not that high).<p>If you look at the US, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wealth_in_the_United_States#Wealth_distribution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wealth_in_the_United_States#We...</a> has numbers for 2007 saying that the top 1% owned 34.6% of the total wealth but that grew to 37.1% after the Great Recession.  Total wealth in the US according to the above Credit Suisse report is about $86 trillion; that gives about $100,000 per person if you redistribute the wealth of the top 1%.