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Considering that “99%??? has all but entered our dictionaries, it’s interesting to stop for a while and think about that dubious 1%. It elicits so much of what Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman calls “envy, admiration, disdain [and] awe??? that peoples’ feelings surrounding the minority have dissolved into plain, old, hard-boiled anger. But the percentages are not actually correct; simply type your annual income into globalrichlist.com and you may find yourself amongst the unattainables.  But this is…