Conversely, this is why they don’t understand how the impoverished life because they’re used to seeing 0.5 percenters as the really rich people and never meaningfully interact with anyone outside of the top 10%. Thus we get gems like Romney’s classic “just borrow a million from your parents to start a business” because in their realm the only people who aren’t making 1 percenter money are the kids of rich people whose careers haven’t settled yet.