Infinitesimal.

• Author: Rundles, Jeff
• Position: RUNDLES wrap up - Column

I JUST DISCOVERED THAT I AM PART OF THE 1 percent. No. I am not rich far from it--but I have discovered there are other ways or being among the I percent.

Or course. fatuously this year are The 1 percent either those people who can more money on a regular basis than the "other 99 percent" or those people wealth is in the top 1 percent of the population, said to be a firming minority with more and concentration of greenbacks. Heck. I'd take the top 2 percent or 10 percent, but I guess politically it is more expedient to lump the very bottom--every day near my downtown office and I feel as far from them as I do from the 1 percent, but then nothing in political definitions seems to make any sense these days.

I, or rather my company, recently discovered we were part "the 1 percent" after a lengthy billing dispute with a telecommunications company somehow linked to a century. A little more than a year ago we ordered several very expensive telecommunications hook-ups that the company was all too happy to book as business and relatively reluctant to actually install, They were, however, very keen on billing lot said hook-ups, and let us just soy that getting their billing to somehow match up with their service was a little like getting the left and right side of the aisle in Congress to compromise. Alter threats of service interruptions or even collections, the matter was finally resolved with an apology and an observation that "this only happens to 1 percent of our customers." Well, thank you very much; I have always wanted to he among the 1 percent.

I guess that's it then: Businesses of all stripes tend to brag about their 99 percent-right-on-the-money performance. meaning. I guess, they aim to screw up I percent of the time. I don't know about you, but it seems as though I end up in this I guess I am special

Other than the being fabulously wealthy thing, there appears to be some fascination with this idea of I percent, some magic in the number. I did some research into it and found some interesting concepts.

For there is the so-called I percent Rule Iii Internet culture, also called "participation inequality," that states that I percent of the people create content. 9 percent edit or...