Median household income was $83,730 in 2024

That's going to include dual income households as well as single income, so the $70k threshold for being in the top 10% may actually include some people below median, depending on what the distribution of single vs dual income households happens to be.

Point being, since we're being pedantic today, is that being anywhere above median income in a developed nation means you are likely in the global top 10%.

As if the employee-owned fossil fuel syndicates and weapons manufacturer syndicates and car manufacturer syndicates and road construction syndicates and plastic processing syndicates wouldn't be trying to sabotage green solutions just as hard. As if the warehouse logistics syndicate couldn't use its monopsony to bully manufacturing syndicates into making the shittiest products for them and their monopoly to get those shitty product to the masses. And as if a liberal democracy like the US wouldn't be just as corruptible by these syndicates resulting in the state actively trying to sabotage green projects as well.

There is no reason for employee-owned syndicates to be more of a force for good outside the workplace than pension funds. Most workers with even the slightest profit motive invest in weapons for genocide, pollution for profit, and housing as a speculative form of income. If a syndicate was bad for the environment, that syndicate would fight to continue existing as long as it was profitable for the employees to do so.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that the employees get their fair share of the blood money. But capitalism redistributes wealth from the kind to the selfish whether they're individuals, corporations, or syndicates.

The capitalist class aren't cartoon villains; they're normal people. Changing the system to get rid of them isn't going to magically get rid of the human preference for the easier path. People aren't going to just suddenly wholesale agree to take the long view and do things the more expensive, but more environmentally friendly way. And when I say "more expensive" I don't mean the added expense of corporate greed. Even after you take out that factor, a lot of the expense comes from the simple difference in energy density.