How Rich Are You?

[Blunt]

LINKY

[Penfold]

Very interesting .... makes you think eh..!

[Bastet]

omg, even with my student income (about 65 euro per month):

You are in the top 47.18% richest people in the world.
There are 3,168,678,304 people poorer than you.
How do you feel about that? A bit richer we hope. Please consider donating just a small amount to help some of the poorest people in the world. Many of their lives could be improved dramatically or even saved if you donate just one hour's salary (approx â,¬0.54)
 
That stuff makes you think ..

[Jamoe]

:blink:

I'm the 107,826,087 richest person on earth!

There are 5,892,173,913 people poorer than you.

 :blink:

[sulky_uk]

i feel bad


im 52,629,265

You are in the top 0.877% richest people in the world.
There are 5,947,370,735 people poorer than you.

time to stop doing overtime :blink:

[sheepy]

I can't believe that Im in the top 7.5% with the sh!ty money im on

[Doorman]

I have no need to look at 'LINKY' cos I know I'm exceedingly rich.  :ph34r:

[Liberator]

Did you see the link at the bottom.

How rich are you compared to the rest of the UK, here.

[Arcticfire]

kinda strange that i am @ the top 30% with me â,¬1200,- a year :S
i surely dont have that feeling when i look on my bankaccount

[mono_dna]

Am I poor? Of course not! Am I rich? No, I am not _rich_. I am not in need though, and there's a pretty big difference between being rich and being not-in-need.

These kind of comparisons makes your income seem wildly out of proportion when you consider the pathetic amount of money the poorest people have (or rather don't have). I am not poor (just got a new job BUT you have to take into account that I pay 50% of that income back to the state in taxes AND the extortionate price levels here. That applies to every kind of goods you can imagine. Take house prices for instance: A 55 sqm house in this little suburban city I live in can easily cost around £250.000... A Suzuki Alto costs £10.500 compared to £5.000 in the UK.

Of course these are mostly material concerns, but I wish that sites like this one would take living costs into the calculations. When I was in China at first I was stunned by the low prices on everything. A pair of nice leather shoes £7, a meal at a restaurant £0,12.... 'Wow, this is really cheap!!!' YES, to me because my scrappy savings are proportionately larger in China, but to the ordinary chinese nothing is really cheap at all. A guy I met was talking about a luxurious 200+ sqm house by the lakeside, a real dreamhouse that he would never be able to afford. That was about £40.000. Please compare that to the 55 sqm I mentioned earlier...

I am sorry about the rant, but I am so tired of having to feel guilty about living in a place that provides the means to a good amount of security and safety regarding the necessities to survive.

Oh well, just to finish off by polishing my halo, I'm donating £6 every month to Amnesty Int. Am I generous or what?!?

EDIT: Wow, where did that angry old man come from?

[Doris]

You are in the top 13.54% richest people in the world.
There are 5,187,539,068 people poorer than you.



great

[sheepy]

there is no way that is correct, no way am I in the top 25% of the UK, maybe if I was on what Im on 10 years ago, but not now.

[smilodon]

Originally posted by mono_dna@Mar 10 2006, 10:19 PM
I am sorry about the rant, but I am so tired of having to feel guilty about living in a place that provides the means to a good amount of security and safety regarding the necessities to survive.

We should only feel guilty if our own countries and societies were responible for the current levels of global poverty in the world. Only if people died as a direct result of our control of global markets, our creation of restrictive trade barriers that keep 10% of the population wealthy at the expense of the other 90%, should we feel guilt. If we lived in a world where 20% of the global population consumed 86% of the world’s goods while 80% of humanity got just the remainder 14%, then we might feel we were somehow responsible. If we spent more each year on purfume and cosmetics in the US and Europe (13 billion dollars) than would be required to solve all the world sanitation and food shortages, then guilt would probably be the right thing to feel.

[Dingo]

Originally posted by smilodon@Mar 14 2006, 12:30 PM
We should only feel guilty if our own countries and societies were responible for the current levels of global poverty in the world. Only if people died as a direct result of our control of global markets, our creation of restrictive trade barriers that keep 10% of the population wealthy at the expense of the other 90%, should we feel guilt. If we lived in a world where 20% of the global population consumed 86% of the world’s goods while 80% of humanity got just the remainder 14%, then we might feel we were somehow responsible. If we spent more each year on purfume and cosmetics in the US and Europe (13 billion dollars) than would be required to solve all the world sanitation and food shortages, then guilt would probably be the right thing to feel.

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.......and of course we should feel guilty if we "allowed" leaders of many of those countries without sanitation and food\housing  to be in the top 10% of the wealthy whilst their fellow countrymen starve and live in poor conditions, if we sold arms to them to propogate internal subjegation and brutality, if we sold them top of the range air conditioned limosines instead of insisting they spend it on their countrymen and if we then allowed them to live unhindered once they had stripped their countries wealth and stashed it in their personal accounts.....think the finger needs pointing there first old son!!

[smilodon]

The amount of money stolen by corrupt political leaders in the developing world pales into insignificance compared to the money denied to the people of those countries by trade tarrifs and barriers and commercial protectionism by the wealthy nations of the world. We may wish to shift our collective responsibility onto corrupt officials but it doesn't work. And of course where you force a people to live in poverty you create an environment where corruption can thrive. Corruption is a product of poverty and not the other way round.