While 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, trying to afford housing and food and health care and other basic necessities of life, the richest people in our country have never, ever had it so good. The top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. And if you can believe it, one man, Mr. Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire, now owns three times more wealth than the bottom half of our nation, and that is 170 million people. (01:50–01:55)
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Asserts that the top 1% of wealth holders own more than the bottom 93% in the U.S.
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