http://www.globalrichlist.com/

With and annual income of 55000 a person ranks 57,087,865 or top .95% in the world. Pretty damn impressive. Or sad to think that 90.05% of the world makes less than that.

11/2/2008 9:50:22 PM

You mean 99.05%?

Dude, something like 70% of people earn less than $2 a day, which translates to what, a whopping $730 pa


[Edited on November 2, 2008 at 9:52 PM. Reason : ]

11/2/2008 9:51:29 PM

yeah i'm sorry, 99.05%

11/2/2008 9:53:16 PM

IMM RICCCCH BITCH

11/2/2008 9:53:24 PM

IMM RICCCCH BITCH

11/2/2008 9:53:51 PM

Mind-blowing facts.

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"All you have to do is make a choice. $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."

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"Three billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3 billion get by on less than $1 per day. Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women."

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"When is 225 = 2,500,000,000? The world's 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of $1 trillion. That's equal to the combined annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorest people."

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"Three decades ago, the people in well-to-do countries were 30 times better off than those in countries where the poorest 20 percent of the world's people live. By 1998, this gap had widened to 82 times."

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"Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined."

11/2/2008 10:06:17 PM

fuck em?

11/2/2008 10:07:34 PM

awesome

11/2/2008 10:12:02 PM

^^^create something that over a billion people use, then you'll deserve the same

11/2/2008 10:13:06 PM

White Man's Burden is a bitch.

11/2/2008 10:13:15 PM

spread the wealth around!

11/2/2008 10:15:50 PM

socialist much?

11/2/2008 10:16:04 PM

socialist everyone. IT'S THE ONLY WAY IT WILL WORK.

11/2/2008 10:17:09 PM

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"create something that over a billion people use, then you'll deserve the same"

nobody deserves that much money--nobody

11/2/2008 10:26:57 PM

sure they do. they worked hard, they earned it.

11/2/2008 10:28:48 PM

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"nobody deserves that much money--nobody"

thats horseshit

11/2/2008 10:30:39 PM

wow, i did my income from this year and i was still top 15% and im poor as shit

i did my parents and they were doin pretttty good

11/2/2008 10:30:43 PM

ewww you did your parents

11/2/2008 10:31:39 PM

If they will do good with that money, then they deserve it. That's just a Christian perspective. From a capitalist perspective, if they worked hard to earn it, then they deserve it. From a survivalist perspective, if they were able to get their hands on it, they deserve it.

In what system do they not deserve it?

11/2/2008 10:32:14 PM

lol

those stats are crazy, makes me wanna send that $8 bucks

11/2/2008 10:32:42 PM

investment isnt work

11/2/2008 10:32:45 PM

your money is your money

all you socialist bitches need to bite a bullet

hippie propaganda

11/2/2008 10:34:19 PM

yeah but we are all entitled to digital cable

11/2/2008 10:37:02 PM

And internets. And health care. Nah, just internets.

11/2/2008 10:37:30 PM

who needs healthcare when you've got initernets

11/2/2008 10:38:29 PM

Exactly!

11/2/2008 10:39:37 PM

if i cant cure it with webmd then fucking put a bullet in me

11/2/2008 10:40:14 PM

I seriously heard this lady arguing with the people at Time Warner one time that they could not charge her a deposit or make her pay her bad debt to them because she had filed bankruptcy. She was demanding that they turn her TV on (digital cable, HBO, & house phone) with no deposit.

11/2/2008 10:40:21 PM

hmmmm at $40 billion, you're only the 107,565 richest.....

11/2/2008 10:42:57 PM

^ It caps at least one million dollars.

11/2/2008 10:43:39 PM

dunno if this thing is even close to right, at $1000 USD you're still in the top 44%......?

11/2/2008 10:44:40 PM

Through testing, it seems to cap your rank at $200,001.

11/2/2008 10:45:49 PM

^^

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"Three billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3 billion get by on less than $1 per day. Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women."

11/2/2008 10:48:54 PM

Watch what happens when you put in $0.

11/2/2008 10:56:31 PM

purchasing power parity much?

11/2/2008 11:00:20 PM

No, that would involve math.

11/2/2008 11:18:13 PM

5% of the people own 95% of the money in the US.

11/2/2008 11:19:40 PM

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"dunno if this thing is even close to right, at $1000 USD you're still in the top 44%......?"

Perhaps it's time you came down to this world you are living in?

Globalrichlist, not Americanrichlist.

11/2/2008 11:20:06 PM

i've seen this thread before and m2c was like "yay top 98%" or some bullshit. what an alias.

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

11/2/2008 11:20:25 PM

Oooo, is there an American Rich List?

11/2/2008 11:21:51 PM

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"You are the 824,785,999 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 13.74% richest people in the world! How do you feel about that? A bit richer we hope. Richer and ready to give some of your newly found wealth to those who need it most. It not hard - just slip your hand in your pocket and pull out something special. Something that can help redress the balance - and also make you feel uncommonly good. Many peoples lives could be happier if you donated just one hour's salary (approx $4.27 - UK estimate). All you have to do is make a choice. $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."

damn

11/2/2008 11:43:06 PM

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"sure they do. they worked hard, they earned it"

a ph.d. in india makes what a third of what you will here? did you work 3 times harder than he did?

is bill gates' personal contribution to society greater than the combined contributions of the billion or so poorest people?

you can say a lot of positive things about capitalism, but to say that it's fair is ludicrous

11/2/2008 11:45:39 PM

Who said life was fair?

11/2/2008 11:49:20 PM

see, i can't knock bill gates. if he'd sold windows at $1 profit per copy, he'd still be a billionaire.

11/2/2008 11:50:46 PM

^^i didn't say they did

i said that nobody deserves $50 billion

[Edited on November 3, 2008 at 12:04 AM. Reason : dat 190% reading comprehension]

11/2/2008 11:50:50 PM

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"you can say a lot of positive things about capitalism, but to say that it's fair is ludicrous"

It's the most "fair" economy that has ever existed. Bitch and moan all you want, but guess what? Wealth is spread more now that it has ever been in history. There will always be rich people and poor people. The best you can do is work toward a future where the poor people have the same opportunities to become rich.

11/3/2008 12:24:48 AM

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"It's the most "fair" economy that has ever existed. Bitch and moan all you want, but guess what? Wealth is spread more now that it has ever been in history. There will always be rich people and poor people."

economic inequality has gotten worse over time, homeslice

11/3/2008 12:29:58 AM

^^ you don't seriously believe that do you?

11/3/2008 9:31:08 AM

I'm in the top 11.8%!

11/3/2008 9:32:29 AM

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"Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women.""

Vix!!!!

11/3/2008 9:34:30 AM