That's all besides the point. It sounds like he is making < $1 million / yr which might technically put him in the top 1%, but his wealth is still far from the point of being a target for wealth taxes that some on the left have proposed. He is still in the same boat as the rest of the middle/upper-middle class families in this country but has somehow been convinced that he's in the same boat as billionaire heirs/hedge fund managers/CEOs. Which makes sense if you don't actually know any of those people, some people's level of wealth is just hard to wrap your head around.