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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
I don't think he's remotely claiming it to be easy.
• The OP cites one tenth of 1% making $100K per year. I don't know if that's true, but this is his assertion.
• When President Biden announced a tax plan that would target households making $400K per year, this meant the top 1.8 percent. To get to the top 1 percent, that threshold increases to $458,894, or did back in 2020. [Source: IRS, Statistics of Income, ”Individual Income Rates and Tax Shares.”]
Thus, the OP is saying 10 times as many families pull in $458K for all professions combined compared to those who earn $100K playing poker. Lower the requirement to $300K for the general population, and that widens the margin even more.
So yeah, granting the OP's assumptions about how many make six figures playing poker, it's hard to disagree with his take.