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- mytruehero, on 10/12/2007, -16/+128income != wealth
- hoppdawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+73So if you make anything over $200,000/yr you're automatically the 107,565th richest person in the world! hmm...
- mhuggins, on 10/12/2007, -6/+78Very well programmed! Whoever makes $0/yr is "the richest person in the world" according to the site, and whoever makes $99999999999999999999999999999999999/yr is the 107,565th most wealthy person in the world! That guy must be jealous of whoever's making nothing...
- gnomon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63Why not a second generation high def TV for the Angolan village?
- sunchild, on 10/12/2007, -14/+69107,565. That's top 0.001%. I'm not bragging, believe me. Money can't buy love or happiness!
- zediker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57But also realize that cost of living in 1st world nations is astronomical compared to 3rd world nations. I would rather see an Income/CoL ratio than just income.
- e03179, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54Heard he just bought a PS3. Now he's the 974,465,231 richest person in the world.
- Doomhammer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+48"how do YOU rank?"
Why are people being dugg down for answering his prompt ?! - bleaknik, on 10/12/2007, -20/+60Charity Starts at home.
I don't mean to sound porous, but when I was a broke student many years ago no one gave me a dime. I worked my way to where I am with my own hard work. It is not my obligation to share that with the world.
Welcome to capitalism.
[Yup, I'm getting dugg down, but it's a very valid point to those who have had to work for what they have]. - jonrad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41If you take a look at the source (http://www.globalrichlist.com/_js/project.js):
var minDollarToCalc = 100;
var maxDollarToCalc = 200000;
doesn't calculate below 100 or above 200,000
totalPopulation = 6000000000;
avarageYearlyIncome = 5000;
total population is assumed to be 6 billion (inaccurate)
average yearly income is 5000? I tried putting in 5000 but it didn't give me 50% and it looks like someone has really bad spelling (avarage? come on)
I'm sure there is more goodness hidden in there - coolian, on 10/12/2007, -11/+47Pure crap.
Apparently, I'm much richer than all my peers - if that's the case, how come those bastards drive a Porsche!? - hemothorax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Money may not be able to buy happiness, but that's a lesson I'm willing to learn the hard way.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+394,804,408,801
... no, wait... that's yen. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31This is a good point, zediker. Still, the purpose of the site is to make people aware of the amount of goog they can do:
"$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
$30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village." - t1t0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32@zediker
True, nevertheless the quality of life we have is astronomical compared to 3rd world nations. Yes we pay much much more for a banana, but we get to live in air-conditioned homes with running water...
We'd have to see Inc/CoL x QoL. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -24/+52Nobody likes a braggart...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31Hmm i put in one U.S. Dollar
and it said i was the richest person in the world
well it may be true that money doesnt buy you happiness(for that i guess you need commodities or maybe rare elements)
but a dollar wont buy you much of anything. - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32"when I was a broke student many years ago no one gave me a dime. I worked my way to where I am with my own hard work."
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Really? So, when you grew up, you paid for your own schooling, health care, nutrition, and sanitation? You not once set foot in a community or school library? Any and all institutions of higher education you ever attended/visited were certainly not funded through government grants, and had absolutely no alumni benefactors or income from donations.
Are you honestly arguing that you not once benefited from the society you (and your family) were born in to? That you got where you are in life purely on your own means. Say you were born to subsistence farmers in a small, isolated, sub-Saharan village... do you honestly believe you would have *any* chance at being where you are today just through "my own hard work"?!
You, sir, are an ignorant and arrogant snob. - GravyTrain6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23by ended your statement with the word "Cool", i find it hard to believe that your number is accurate.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+37i am sure there are diggers that make more than i do. how do YOU rank?
- giraldus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25sunchild:
>107,565. That's top 0.001%. I'm not bragging, believe me. Money can't buy love or happiness!
still, US$200k+ per year can buy you something that looks close enough :-) - vafada, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20@kevin45
you idiot, that's why the rest of the world hates Americans, it's people like you who think everyone else is inferior compared to Americans. $2000 is a LOT for person living a third world country, heck, $2000 can feed a family for a whole year in some 3rd world countries. The site is based on the whole world, which includes *shock* Africa. - brianbowden, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Come on Bleaknik. Its a mistake you're making when you make the assumption that you starting as a broke student is the same as someone starting out in a third world nation. The foothold you started out with is still way beyond what your average third world person will ever achieve regardless of how much labor he/she outputs. The playing field isn't as level as everyone likes to act like it is.
- Stalks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16kevin45, you are one ignorant, self-centered, arrogant son of a bitch.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17You are Bill Gates.
WTF? - halavais, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18You had the privilege to go to school, largely because you grew up in the first world. You had advantages that 99% of the world did not have.
My family was homeless for a stretch, and I had to work my way through school (a lot of school: I have a Ph.D.). I now earn a more than comfortable living. But I am not dense enough (I too am fairly porous) to believe that the social infrastructure had nothing to do with an ability to reach my goals. Had I been born in Uganda, my children would be as homeless as I was.
Given that I now make a comfortable living, my response isn't "screw you if by accident of birth you didn't have my advantages." I don't expect to support indolence here or abroad, but I do want to help provide the infrastructure to support those who are willing to work, and give them some of the opportunities I had. It's called fair play. - biggdig, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18I am a single person in the continental US and make $9,801, $1 above the poverty line for a single person. I am the 801,501,612 richest person in the world and am in the top 13.35%.
1. Our economy is over inflated compared to the rest of the world. (Fair Trade anyone?)
2. WTF I can't pay rent, buy heathy food, and pay to get to work for that price. (Not to mention pay the medical bills as I don't have health insurance.) How am I middle class? Why is the 'middle' in the top 13%? How high does the middle go? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13damn you mean this is as accurate as that real time world stat site that was on here earlier?
- 1Bit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Apparently there are 107,564 people who make an infinite amount of money per year.
- Tomcat1944, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14What passes for the middle class in america could pass as the upper class in most of the rest of the world.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14"I earn less than most africans"
That is wildly inappropriate. - ahsen74, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14depressing. My income is more than the majority of the world, and how little of it goes in the way of charity.
- MrLunar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Good god man, my eyes! When that background just appeared I thought I was blinded.
- SamKellett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Man seeing that red guy on the far left is depressing
- hereisandy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10@coolian They could be in debt up to their eyeballs, you possible have saved up over a long period to buy their dream car, or maybe that's the only thing they own of value. I'm just trying to say, its possible
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Obviously you didn't get rich through deductive reasoning. LOL!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10That's cause you have to spend so damn much to eat compared to other countries.
- RonAcierno, on 02/07/2008, -4/+10wether this site is completly accurate or not .. makes me a little more apreciative of everything i have
- BdaBeerman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11It's not what you make that counts. It's what you keep.
No good making $100,000 if taxes take 60%
Making $150,000 isn't so great if your rent is $6,000 per month.
It's all relative. - brianjlowry, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10pssst. Try Firefox.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14>>>"People (we Americans, specifically) dont often realize the huge numbers of people living on practically no income."
Oh, no, I realize it. I just don't care.
I mean, yes, the world sucks. But telling me I've got it good isn't going to help any. I know I've got it good. Yay for me.
99% of the world's problems could be solved by killing off 0.05% of the population. I'll help pay to assassinate a dictator or twelve, but throwing money at poor people doesn't help them. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12What's relatively unnerving is that when you input annual incomes like $5,000, you're still in the top 15%. People (we Americans, specifically) dont often realize the huge numbers of people living on practically no income.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"$2000 per year in the US is not rich, but there are probably a billion people in Africa that won't see that in a lifetime."
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Doubtful, since there aren't a billion people in Africa. - d10nysus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8charity is not an obligation bleaknik...it's a choice. You choose not to but that's your viewpoint.
As for me...just 'cos I'm not obliged to do something doesn't make me stop doing it. I'm not obliged to be nice to people...but i usually am (with notable exceptions :)).
On the other hand there might a lot of things I'm obliged to do that I avoid... - Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Plus there's not a single person who makes between 20 and 99 million a year!!!
- drewskyjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I noticed the banners showing what $15 or $30 could do to help in a developing economy and supportin CARE. I found a site recently that lets you lend money to specific people in specific countries to help them start or expand their businesses. You get repaid, but not with interest. And the minimum to loan is $25. The loan is disbursed after enough lenders put in the total requested. Sorry for the bad description, but it is a really good way to help a little bit at a time...and you get your money back. Check out http://Kiva.org
- Phearce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Really?!? Scoring 0.69 means your income is somewhere around US$95,000.
6,000,000,000 * 0.0069 = 41,400,000. So, globally there are around 41 million people with higher incomes than you. Is that such a stretch?
Try this example. US population just crossed 300,000,000. The US per capita income is around $25,000 (http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_submenuId=factsheet_0&_sse=on). In order for the average to be that low, a very large portion of the population (figure half for quick math) must be earning less than $25000. There's 150,000,000 real people.
Point is, show a little awareness before opening your pie-hole. - xuanyan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It is very sad to see that if you make $500 a year, you are richer than 20% of people in the world.
- Blisshead, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Is that right Sponge Bob? I should try to absorb some of your ways, let the knowledge wash through me, so I can soak it all in! :)
- girlmightlive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5According to http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp
Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations.
20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.
In 1960, the 20% of the world’s people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as much. -
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