I think perhaps 80% to 20%. Smarter members of the 80% often rise into the 20% so no longer agitate for change. Some genuine efforts to change this split for example the Russian revolution in 2017 may result in an even worse stuation. The best hope is incremental changes via democracy with a fair tax system helping to adjust the balance.

@Fretherne1 ,
unfortunately, with a fiat money system controlled by the US with their world reserve curency; there is no chance of anything even resembling a true democracy with a fair tax system.
there was an old saying "he who has the gold rules". now fiat currencies have replaced gold but ppl can still protect themselves with gold. few will, though.

@callmedubious "Geld regiert die Welt"

How often did you hear that in Germany

@Fretherne1 ,
i was with NATO in germany decades ago but to be honest wasn't really interested in what they thought about gold back then.

I have been to the New Forest and it is magical.

So I was under the impression that traditional rights on common land were still in force in UK.

@Jolanta They are but just a fraction of the land that was common at the beginning of the 17th ceeent.