No it exists in a pie. Everyone has a sliver. Some have larger pieces and some have smaller. How do you want to divide it? If the bottom 10% pulled themselves up and so on and so on you arrive at the top 1% who can't pull themselves higher because the pie is only so big. Meaning, in this case, the top 1%'ers slice of the pie gets smaller to prop up all the other levels. So, for the impoverished to climb as a whole someone somewhere up the chain has to decline. Of course trickle down economics is the exact opposite where the bottom of the chain loses out. It's inherant in capitalism.