斯图尔特认为，中间9.9%的精英“操控着将资源从底层90%引向顶层0.1%的社会机器 ” ， 并愉快地接受其努力工作的“战利品分赃 ” 。
According to Stewart, the 9.9% is “the staff that runs the machine that funnels resources from the 90% to the 0.1%,” happily taking its “cut of the spoils.”