Question of the Day #1168

Never Mind the 1 Percent. Let’s Talk About the 0.01 Percent

From the headline of this article at the Chicago Booth Review.

  上記の文で、the 1 Percentの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "the 1 Percent" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎やWeblioに適訳はありませんが、Weblioの例文の中に In the 1970s, the one percent...があって、その訳は、

米国では 1970年代 富裕層である「1%」が・・・

です。したがって、the one percent (1 percent, 1%と書くこともあります)の訳は、「富裕層である『1%』」になります。

 

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

the richest one percent of people, who are said to have most of the money, property, and power in society

 

Examples

1. He promised to govern in the interests of all, and not just the one percent.
2. However, the 1% is not necessarily a reference to top 1% of wage earners, but a reference to the top 1% of individuals by net worth, whose earned wages are only a fraction of their total sources of wealth.
3. Mainstream media sources trace the origin of the phrase to economist Joseph Stiglitz's May 2011 article "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" in Vanity Fair, in which he was criticizing the economic inequality present in the United States.
4. Their research transformed domestic politics, leading President Barack Obama to declare inequality the “defining issue of our time,” and turning the one percent into a shorthand for excessive wealth and power.
5. But, according to Auten and Splinter, the one percent’s share of income has actually remained basically unchanged.

   

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