If the bottom 50% disappeared they would be replaced with migrants in 1 or 2 weeks. If the top 10% disappeared the nation and all it's lifeline systems would cease to exist and the bottom 50% would slowly rot.
We could probably weather the storm of losing the top 0.1%, but, taking a good for the nation perspective, I'd rather that money get distributed to the top 1% than the bottom 50%.
I think finding and transporting 170 million migrants in 2 weeks to replace the bottom 50% would be quite the engineering challenge if at all possible.
We could probably weather the storm of losing the top 0.1%, but, taking a good for the nation perspective, I'd rather that money get distributed to the top 1% than the bottom 50%.