One answer is that everyone _IS_ super-rich, compared to any median or average in history.
But also missing is scalability of opportunity and size of market for a given point on a price/performance curve. It’s worth noting that the best table-tennis player in the world makes NOTHING if the second- through billionth-best don’t play against them. Also a whole lot of frontiers in that multi-dimensional space have so much demand that the best, second-best, and billionth-best are all at full capacity, and there remains money for the billion and one-th best to make some money at it.
One answer is that everyone _IS_ super-rich, compared to any median or average in history.
But also missing is scalability of opportunity and size of market for a given point on a price/performance curve. It’s worth noting that the best table-tennis player in the world makes NOTHING if the second- through billionth-best don’t play against them. Also a whole lot of frontiers in that multi-dimensional space have so much demand that the best, second-best, and billionth-best are all at full capacity, and there remains money for the billion and one-th best to make some money at it.