how much "ownership" does that correspond to - in percentage of property ? in percentage of stock market ownership ? in percentage of ownership of the total world economy ? in money ? how is this money used ? any other statistics you know revolving around this ? regarding world population inequality between the top 0,001 percent, and 90 percent of the "least rich" population ? what about "power" in terms of "decision making entities" ? certain companies, or governments have huge powers, but who truly has an influence on them ? is the 0,001 richest percent who owns 1000 times more then the bottom 90 percent in control of these companies and governments ? As to equal the "richness" of the "3000 richest american people", it would require 270 000 000 000 ( 270 billion ) people as rich as one of the ( so called ) richest populations on earth ? How many times richer are the 3000 richest americans, compared to 3000 of the richest non-americans ? In addition to link below, some googling leads me to the following pdf , in relation to "superclass" : 1. http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/files/jia/241-246_long_bookreviews.pdf How can one talk of a "market" when a few people own 1000 times more financial power then almost all the rest ? Is it in their interest to keep or make people poor ? Not to become richer, but to keep control ? http://cognitivedissonance.tumblr.com/post/2345941801/plutocracy-reborn-u-s-... excerpt : In 1928, one year before the global economic collapse, the wealthiest .001% of the U.S. population owned 892 times more than 90% of the nation’s citizens. Today, the top .001% of the U.S. population owns 976 times more than the entire bottom 90%<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/extreme_inequality> .