Put Your Income into Global Perspective--Quick and Interesting

[emlev]

http://www.globalrichlist.com

This doesn't take into effect cost of living, but I still found it quite interesting.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. That is amazing. YOu can adjust it for your

cost of living by deducting things from your income, of course.

[walldude]

2. It also doesn't take into effect how many people

you are supporting. Not very accurate. However you may want to send it to Supreme Court Justice Scalia who was bitching yesterday that you can't raise a family on $165,000 a year and he needs a raise.
On edit, I adjusted my income per person which comes out to approx $7500 a year, and that still put me in the top 12%. Uh.. that just does'nt seem accurate to me.

[coffeenap]

4. That's because the vast majority of people on this planet

live on less than $10 a day. It is so easy to forget that. Peace.

[walldude]

6. Yeah I know, do the math... At what I'm making we are

getting by on around 20 bucks a day per person.

[coffeenap]

3. Thanks--just sent this to my close friends; the crass rich ones

are next in line, heh heh.

[enough]

5. Very interesting and very quick

Thanks for posting this.

[Straight Shooter]

7. What money can buy. Very little, or a great deal, when compared side-by-side.

"$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda."

Just a coincidence, but a friend was telling me that despite my income, which is not great, I am considered rich by world standards. It does no good to argue that I work 60 to 70-hour weeks, as many people in the world also do the same, and much harder labor than what I do.

Thanks for sharing this link. :thumbsup:

[alittlelark]

8. Top .33%... funny, living in Silicon Valley we are on the lower end

Property holdings, stocks, and savings are not included.

I understand WHY, but it is a skewed assessment - they should add those things to really give one a view of what they could do w/ their $$$$.

[SlipperySlope]

9. The standard international definition of poverty

Is $1 per day.

[OneBlueSky]

10. this is humbling . . . assuming someone earns the federal minimum wage . . .

(currently $5.15, I believe) and works a 40-hour week (less and less common these days), annual income for 52 weeks would be $10,712 -- which is poverty wages in this country . . .

yet that person is still in the top 13.16% of all earners worldwide . . .

globally, we desperately need new systems to more equitably distribute the blessings of creation to all of humankind . . .

[BelgianMadCow]

11. That is a link worth emailing all of our western individualists - bookmarked

thanks for sharing.

[rman]

12. can't top position 107,565

top 0.001%
@ $300,000/year

There are people who make 10 times as much and more.

[emlev]

13. kick for the Monday DUers