George Carlin - It’s A Big Club & You Ain’t In It!
George Carlin had a net worth of $10 million at the time of his death in 2008.
Adjusted for inflation that would be $14,653,441 in 2024.
The minimum net worth of the top 1% of households is roughly $13.7 million.
So, Carlin was in the “big club” of the 1%.
Even if this was correct (see the comments about how it really isn’t), it wouldn’t matter much since he was still right.
And $10 million isn’t really that much, it’s still at the level where you have to budget income and expenses and money is tangible. The 1% of the 1% are the ones who are past that and leverage power with their worth, it’s no longer about whether or not they can afford anything.
years ago ten mil would have been big but around me their are over a million dollar houses and they are not exactly mansions.