# one percent (few)

*Ordinarily means:* the richest one percent of a population, contrasted with everyone else

A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group by wealth: the few members keeping most of it, against every other member.

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [wealth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wealth.range), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [division](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-division.process), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition)

**Through:** A line drawn at a number puts almost all members on one pole, so the split reads as the whole group against a small part of itself.

**Novel properties:**
- a split that leaves almost all on one pole
- a line drawn by a number

## Examples
- Joseph Stiglitz's 2011 Vanity Fair essay was titled 'Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%'. *(economics)*

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