Everyday millionaires outstrip tech fortunes

A large, often overlooked cohort of private small‑business owners (car dealerships, local distribution, trades, etc.) — roughly three million people with net worths above about $5M — collectively hold far more wealth than the famous Forbes 400 tech and finance elites. That concentration of dispersed, place‑based wealth changes who has economic influence and how policies (taxes, credit, regulation) actually affect mobility and local communities. — If true, it redirects policy focus and political narratives from a tiny tech elite toward small‑business owners as the pivotal constituency for wealth, investment, and political leverage.