I'm A One Percenter! --->

[onehandle]

http://globalrichlist.com

[denverbill]

1. Yes, I guess I am too. That does put things in perspective a bit.

[Buzz Clik]

2. not sure how accurate it is, but it's a cute toy.

I kept adding more and more income to see what it would do. It stopped calculating when it got to top 107,565 or 0.001%

[ChazII]

3. Me, too. n/t

[niyad]

4. nice way to get donations.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I'm the 499,827,587 richest person on earth!

I thought I was broke.

[panader0]

8. Could I borrow a few bucks?

I'm only the 747,214,470 richest.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Sure. Why not.

[In_The_Wind]

11. FFIW my BFF is

# 804,100,258
You are the 804,100,258 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 13.4%
richest people in the world!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Better yet, I'm the 40,391,619 richest person in the world!!

[StrayKat]

7. Is that what the ultra rich see too?

I'd guess most people on here wouldn't see their incomes as obscene, and yet according to the calculator they can easily be viewed that way. . . just like those of corporate execs. Still, for many that kind of money doesn't buy a home, food, good education, or healthcare. Our systems are so screwed up.

[bunnies]

10. I'm not.

not even close. sigh.

[Cal Carpenter]

12. Interesting perspective but this is only based on income

When amassed wealth is the even bigger problem, and what really separates the 1% from the rest of us.

[uponit7771]

13. It seems to be a little random, put in variable amounts and the needle moves up with less money

[one_voice]

14. Well fuck..

Look out Trump I'm coming for you..

You are the 48,157,314 richest person in the world!




edited to add: I put in $15,000 and it gave me this:


You are the 734,285,882 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 12.23%
richest people in the world!

The needle was all the way at the end at the 'richest' part.

[HughBeaumont]

15. So . . . if I'm a "one percenter" . . .

. . . does this mean that the standard free-traitor argument that "people from China and India being lifted out of poverty is a good thing" . . . is all a bunch of bunk because they're really still IN poverty, just not as bad?

Said site can goalpost-shift all they want, this changes nothing on the real fact that income inequality in America is worse now than it's been in the past five decades. There still is real poverty in America no matter how high on that chart they may sit; just because they aren't consuming bugs in a mud hut doesn't mean America has no real squalor.

[JDPriestly]

16. There is a big catch.

People may be able to live on less in some parts of the world than they can in others.

For example, in Los Angeles, our property prices are higher than in most of the Midwest, but our heating bills are a lot lower.

If you live in a developed country, you may have to have a car just to shop for groceries. In another place in the world, you may have a little garden plot and supplement what you grow with daily shopping at a local market.

There are huge differences in lifestyles and customs that make life more expensive in one place than in another.

I have lived in various places and noticed that how much you earn does not always correlate to how well you live. If public transportation is convenient and cheap you may not want or need a car. That means you can live more cheaply than you can in the American Midwest where you have to have a car or stay home.