emlev
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Sat Dec-16-06 09:57 PM
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Put Your Income into Global Perspective--Quick and Interesting |
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http://www.globalrichlist.comThis doesn't take into effect cost of living, but I still found it quite interesting.
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Sat Dec-16-06 10:04 PM
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1. That is amazing. YOu can adjust it for your |
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cost of living by deducting things from your income, of course.
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Sat Dec-16-06 10:13 PM
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2. It also doesn't take into effect how many people |
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Edited on Sat Dec-16-06 10:15 PM by walldude
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.
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Sat Dec-16-06 10:17 PM
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4. That's because the vast majority of people on this planet |
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live on less than $10 a day. It is so easy to forget that. Peace.
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Sat Dec-16-06 10:47 PM
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6. Yeah I know, do the math... At what I'm making we are |
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getting by on around 20 bucks a day per person.
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coffeenap
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Sat Dec-16-06 10:16 PM
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3. Thanks--just sent this to my close friends; the crass rich ones |
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are next in line, heh heh.
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Sat Dec-16-06 10:22 PM
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5. Very interesting and very quick |
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Sun Dec-17-06 12:05 AM
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7. What money can buy. Very little, or a great deal, when compared side-by-side. |
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"$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:
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Sun Dec-17-06 12:08 AM
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8. Top .33%... funny, living in Silicon Valley we are on the lower end |
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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 $$$$.
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Sun Dec-17-06 01:18 AM
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9. The standard international definition of poverty |
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Sun Dec-17-06 06:16 AM
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10. this is humbling . . . assuming someone earns the federal minimum wage . . . |
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(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 . . .
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Sun Dec-17-06 06:57 AM
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11. That is a link worth emailing all of our western individualists - bookmarked |
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Sun Dec-17-06 10:47 AM
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12. can't top position 107,565 |
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top 0.001% @ $300,000/year
There are people who make 10 times as much and more.
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Mon Dec-18-06 04:20 PM
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13. kick for the Monday DUers |
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