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globalrichlist.com — This website ranks your income against the world population. I make less than $30k per year but am still in the top 7.45% of the world's income bracket.
cadillaccactus- 3479 diggs
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- cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -16/+37i am sure there are diggers that make more than i do. how do YOU rank?
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -47/+2059,417,573
- NICU, on 10/12/2007, -46/+1856,427,780
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -53/+1935,732,201. Awesome.
- jcdickerson, on 10/12/2007, -45/+1947,070,117
;-) - CharlesSaint007, on 10/12/2007, -24/+52Nobody likes a braggart...
- Confuzed, on 10/12/2007, -27/+22 57,087,865
Not rich enough. Time to get back to work :( - stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -33/+1339,226,764
meh. - mytruehero, on 10/12/2007, -16/+128income != wealth
- 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!? - 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!
- 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -17/+931,471,358 :-D
- sunchild, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3Haha, I see this is rigged!
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+394,804,408,801
... no, wait... that's yen. - 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...
- 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
- PowerCow, 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. - cainrok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@Sunchild: It Can Rent It.
- manitoba98xp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4I tried that. It showed it at the bottom of the page:
5,780,722,892 - natterca, on 10/12/2007, -4/+539,474,024
- 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 :-) - 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.
- 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 ?! - SamKellett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Man seeing that red guy on the far left is depressing
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10107,565
I run a business as a sole proprietorship, though. So, it always looks like I make wacky kinds of money. Believe me, getting a mortgage was even more of a pain than what most people have to go through. - imcompa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7
"sunchild:
>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 :-)"
life like blow up doll and enough booze to make you think it's real for many years. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17You are Bill Gates.
WTF? - zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6How many billionaires are there in the world? I can see maybe few with a billion or maybe two but I put in that I make 20 billion a year (20,000,000,000) and I only came out to 107,565. I know there are billionaires raking it in but over 100 thousand of them?
edit: I'm dumb and didn't read all the posts. I guess 107,565 is as high as you go. Sorry. - asdfrewq, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2# 1
*cough*BUY MICROSOFT*cough* - sotopheavy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Want to be in the richest 1%, you need to make 47,500. Telling you Boss you want to be in the 1% won't get you the raise!
- 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? - aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+554,957,443 richest in the world.
College can be useful but without ambition, it is useless. - archibal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Try searching $800 US dollars annual income. How could you be in the top 50% with only $800 a year? Assuming you work 40 hours a week, that's barely $.39 an hour. Something isn't right....
- cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6archibal, what "isn't right" is that this is a GLOBAL calculation. Salaries are higher in the US, but we only make up about 5% of the world's population. There are BILLIONS of people that make/have very, very little.
The fact that $800 per year ranks highly is sort of the point... - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8LOL the results are wildly inaccurate and the dataset not even hinted at.
Cmon guys. - MrBeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@sunchild
I guess you'll have to rent it. - turgiddahlia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@sunchild
It could get you a couple of Real Dolls though. - intense321, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4107565 is the magic number. How dumb.
- zecreven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1447,241,380? hmm.. at least you're still on the list :)
- terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Top 2%, Guess I should pay more bills on time.
- babakshirazi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2
786,570 damn, doing much better than I thought. - tomatoenator, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I put in 1039822247777777777532987498235798325893798573298759823759823749887298874982734892739477982377498328932798742389489324798327389576859734892743928748932784932897874289373779837249873277327782397832987398729397894897899348947398798973389 and it says I am the 107,566. Is just me or does Gates make less than this?
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2coolian - Well if they all drive a Porsche, maybe they will be sad to hear that you have your own car. You don't have to go around sharing a car like them :)
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2biggdig - Since you are so poor, go ahead and start learning a better trade or study something at barnes and noble, anything instead of complaining to digg about the time or money you don't have. If you are disabled, that's a completely different story, but even then you have enough skill to register yourself on digg and make comment, maybe data entry is in the cards? Have a good one.
- Maddpaky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21...
psst... im not bill gates and im not on digg just to brag about the zune... thats all lies...
lol - jacks0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2hm?
ok so you're in the top 7.45%, and you're the 447,241,380 richest person in the world. 447241380 = 0.075 x world population. therefore the world population is 5,963,218,400. that's way off, according to wikipedia the current world population is ~6.5 billion. oh well, still neat.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population - Nitro187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This doesn't take into account where you live in your country. So if you made 30,000 a year, and lived in the most expensive part of the US, you're a hell of a lot poorer than someone who makes $10,000 a year and lives at their parents in an extremely inexpensive place to live.
But for all you people, it wasn't saying "How wealthy are you" it was saying "How rich are you" which is completely different. If they were saying wealth, then I agree... money doesn't buy you wealth baby. - CircusNinja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@coolian
Anybody can go all out and start buying Porche's and bling etc, but you'll probably find that they're way deep in debt, and will remain so for the next 40 years.
As @mytruehero said: income(money) != wealth - phuchead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+154,369,871 not too bad, but why am i still broke?
-phuc
- 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...
- FeignConfidence, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0lol good point.
- Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Plus there's not a single person who makes between 20 and 99 million a year!!!
- Sirbighands, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paid_baseball_players
There isn't? - Crosshare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's a bug, give the site a second to refresh and it will put you on the right place in the scale.
- 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 - PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13damn you mean this is as accurate as that real time world stat site that was on here earlier?
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5the point of the site is to show you how lucky you are compared to other people. If you make the global population 6.6 billion then it just drives the point further.
- bstock, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2@Sirbighands
That site shows TOTAL income, not yearly, and it looks like the yearly wouldn't hit $20 mil. - ninetimes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@jonrad: No, it's clearly not very precise, but I don't think it's intended to be. $5k could be the mean without being the median. I'm not sure what math they're doing and didn't want to figure out that javascript, but obviously the purpose was to illustrate the imbalance of wealth between the 1st and 3rd world. I'm sure it's true that the mean and median are skewed in the way this thing is indicating.
So while it might not be precise, it probably is accurate. - aposter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0$850 is the median income. I was 3,000,000,001.
- Slagged, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3I am way richer than you.
- isuisorisuaint, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1You are the 54,602,842 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.91%
richest people in the world! - cadillaccactus, 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.
- 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.
- 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. - emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2That's true, cost of living is high here. But so is the rate of people going to college... which worldwide makes up around 1% of the population if I recall.
- Clemson, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0 ...
- tghd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@t1t0
Never confuse quality of life with living standards. - dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@t1t0
Income/CoL should equate to QoL since QoL is directly impacted by how much discretionary income one has. Given that though, I'd say the USA is still pretty high on the Inc/CoL list compared to most 3rd world nations since as you said, our QoL is pretty good. So I agree with your assessment but not your math. - 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. - paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8"but throwing money at poor people doesn't help them"
No, but what does is giving them a decent education and the ability to help themselves, and guess what, that costs money. - wicketr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3No, but what does is giving them a decent education and the ability to help themselves, and guess what, that costs money.
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You mean there's an education in the bottom of that liquor bottle that homeless guy on my street corner is holding? - LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Flying for Air Mobility Command, we used to have a rule: "The 90% rule."
Anyone else know what I'm talking about? ;) Basically, 90% of the world is a *****! Be happy that you were born in that 10% of the world where life isn't a daily struggle. It's all just an accident really. - babakshirazi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"No, but what does is giving them a decent education and the ability to help themselves, and guess what, that costs money."
You mean the kids in the back of the class that didn't pay attention, but wish they had now?
The top 10% of income earners are there because they work harder and smarter. The bottom 10% are either mentally incapable, wacked out on drugs or have experienced some other horrible problem in life.
The middle 80% are busy working themselves up the food chain, don't really care, are happy where they are or don't apply themselves, but they really can't make any excuses in any modern 1st world country.
Third world citizens are mostly just ***** by circumstance and need a evolution led by someone with half a brain. Otherwise, they will remain *****. - streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You can look at this like the World of Warcraft economy.
In the US, we range from level 30s to level 60s (except for a few GMs out on the coasts to whom the level system doesn't apply). To fight our monsters (monthly expenses), we need a certain level of gear, paid for by a certiain amount of gold (salary).
In third world countries, it's like the starting areas. A silver is a fair amount of money, and a gold is amazing wealth, but the gear required for the level of monsters is much lower. So a silver goes a lot further.
Lesson: We should be able to twink the third world. - osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@t1t0 - How do you measure quality of life? There is no monetary value that I know of, and I may be wrong though.
- cadillaccactus, 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."- Relentl3ss, on 10/12/2007, -25/+15Pfft, stuff the Angolans, I wanna watch a big TV
- gnomon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63Why not a second generation high def TV for the Angolan village?
- 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]. - 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! :)
- jdoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Plasmas are on their 9th generation, and only cost about $1000-$1500 now...
- dodoporridge, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8"I don't mean to sound porous"
Is this why you're getting dugg down, Porous? Is this some new slang, or were you trying to say pious? Or callous? It seems like callous. But it could be pious. For all practical porpoises, I'm going to assume it was callous. - 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.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"This is a good point, zediker."
What is a good point? Who is zediker?
(did someone forget to use the 'reply' link again?) - 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. - 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... - gdm9000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I assumed he meant pompous; probably pious, though...
- bleonard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Bleaknik
I agree with you 100% on lifting ones self up. However a lot of what the site tries to reflect on the reader is location. Every comment about what your $ can buy is based on comparing the purchasing power of a citizen in a modern industrialized nation with that same purchasing power in a third world country.
I don't believe in luck, but at the same time a baby born in an Angolan village has a statistically lower chance of making the same amount of money over the course of their entire life as a baby born in London or NYC. - 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. - brianbowden, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wow. You summed it up perfectly fishbert.
- s14sh3r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4I'm sure somewhere there is a starving kid in ethiopia who ranks lower than I do :(
- Brickhaus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Jesus christ you people are banking it.
517,356,322 here. - kevin45, on 10/12/2007, -26/+4Sounds like a scam to get you to donate money. That scale is in no way accurate.. even if you enter 2000 you're still in the top 17%.
Someone making $2000 a year US isn't rich.
inaccurate.- cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7again, this site puts into perspective one's potential to do good. calling it a scam is a bit unfounded. $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.
Also note, if you do the math it figures the world population is 6 billion. - Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You do realize this is relative to the world, not just the US. So 2000 in this country is a lot more then most 3rd world countries in Africa
- kevin45, on 10/12/2007, -32/+1Cadillac you dugg it, did you make the site too?
Anyone here trying to fully live on $2000 in the US? Didn't think so, its not possible. I could care less whats going on in Africa. - cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5no, i didnt make the site. but it spawned a research paper while i was in college.
- 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. - Stalks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16kevin45, you are one ignorant, self-centered, arrogant son of a bitch.
- bighappy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3@vafada - Last I checked, we were the only remaining superpower... and the rest of the world is only where they are due to our help (or lack thereof) - Africa would be far worse if not for our help (regardless of how meager you think it is)
Just goes to show that anytime a statistic is used, it can be used in any way to send a message that is "beyond" the intended purpose.... it is called propaganda idiots.... - 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. - EzraSchwartz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Why are people getting angry with him? $2k in the US a year is dirt poor. Just because that same $2k is rich elsewhere in the world doesn't change that.
- wicketr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2vafada,
The question is could someone survive off $2000 in the US without welfare? No. Could someone survive off $2000 in Africa? Yes.
For one, the things you buy in the US are more expensive than in Africa. Secondly, society is better suited there for people that don't have money. If you live in the US and don't make $20,000 you are the scum of the Earth and are cast aside by society. You almost have to have a car to get around and have to have a shower to clean up before work. Can you imagine riding to work today on a horse or donkey on the interstate and not having showered in 2 weeks because it hasn't rained? Would you still have a job?
Also, you can get someone to clean your house, wash your dishes, wash your clothes, carry you on their back to work all for about $5/week. You do that in the US and you're called a slave owner.
The dollar in Africa goes a LOOOONG way, so if you make $20,000 there, you're RIACH BIATCH! TOOT! TOOT!.
- cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7again, this site puts into perspective one's potential to do good. calling it a scam is a bit unfounded. $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.
- 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.
- skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10That's cause you have to spend so damn much to eat compared to other countries.
- 022A, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"That's cause you have to spend so damn much to eat compared to other countries."
No, I imagine few if any of us (diggers) *have* to spend much (relative to what we make. What we pay for is convienence. A dollar a day is more than enough to eat well if you aren't afraid of a lot of rice and dried beans.
Many people could probably save a couple hundred bucks a month if they just had the discipline to pack a lunch instead of spending $7-10 every day for fast food/casual dining fare.
- Apostr0phe, on 10/12/2007, -17/+0www.duggmirror.com
- TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Inaccurate. Purely for entertainment only. Doesn't take into account inflations, regional cost of living, etc. Just purely how much you make against some statistical value that represents the average world wage.
Because I know I'm not in the TOP 0.69% richest people in the world- 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.
- Phearce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Really?!? Scoring 0.69 means your income is somewhere around US$95,000.
- xyzyx, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0This sorta reminds me of the videos where they show the world population represented as 100 people.
- spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -11/+8http://duggmirror.com
- fak3r, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1107,565
wtf does this tell me? There's more than 107k people richer than me...I've always been troubled by the gap in the US between rich and poor, and it seems to only be growing. What is this page telling me that I'm missing? Thanks.- TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Obviously you didn't get rich through deductive reasoning. LOL!
- fak3r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4@ TheToecutter
Ah, very good/funny point, I'm a Fine Arts major dong Unix Sys admin for years...that's the opportunity this country affords I guess... which may be some of the point of this webpage. We have freedom -- most don't. - TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@fak3r
"I'm a Fine Arts major dong Unix Sys admin for years"
Then there's no way you're making $200K a 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.
- hidd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3i'm broke
- tylerjames, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I am certain that I've seen this site with with a less headache-inducing background.
Still the message is pretty shocking. Especially since as a full-time student with a part time job I only make about six grand a year and I'm still richer than several billion people.
It's kinda scary. - Switchnig, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2wow i feel so much better about myself now!
/sarc - 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.- hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes it is relative but amazon.com is the same price to everyone. Let's say you make $200,000 and you pay $2000/mo for rent. This is better than making $100,000 and paying $1000 for rent (rent meaning cost of living like you mean). If everyone saves a %, the person making 200k has more buying power on amazon, so they die with the most toys and win.
- RonAcierno, on 02/07/2008, -4/+10wether this site is completly accurate or not .. makes me a little more apreciative of everything i have
- MrLunar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Good god man, my eyes! When that background just appeared I thought I was blinded.
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Here's a question: who's the least richest person in the world on this scale?
- lilboytoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I can imagine Bill Gates finally typing in the last digit of his annual salary just to see his rank drop by 107,564.
- n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2You are the 39,615,049 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.66%
richest people in the world! - misteral, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Marked as inaccurate
It's based on annual income. My annual income may be more than someone with say 2mil in the bank (assuming they take no interest). My income doesn't mean I'm "rich" if it all goes say to student loans.- cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4no reason to argue over semantics. and, one more time, this is not a complicated mathematical/magical website, it is intended to put things in better perspective.
- nevetS, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I'm in the top .001%? I don't think so.
I wouldn't equate it to richness - just because a person makes that much money doesn't mean they keep any of it or are responsible with their income.- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Gah! there are so many people here saying exactly what you just said.
Try to wrap your brain around this:
You. have. money. to. spend.
You may make $100,000 year and spend every penny of it and be living check to check, but you have a house, a car, a nice big TV, a college education, and who knows what else.
The rest of the world isn't so lucky. - TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ahawks
To make that rank nevetS would need to make $200,000 per year, not $100,000. If you're making $200,000 a year and you're living paycheck to paycheck, you definitely need to see a personal finance manager. - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bitch, whine, moan. The website should have told you "You are the kind of person who doesn't appreciate the wealth you have."
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Gah! there are so many people here saying exactly what you just said.
- 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.
- SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5pssst. Didn't work in Opera.
- brianjlowry, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10pssst. Try Firefox.
- EmperorPsiblade, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Works fine in Opera...
And the retard Firefox fanboy needs to shut the hell up.
- Airlines007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2277,391,305
- tylerjames, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3digg effect
site seems to be down
i can't seem to get to duggmirror either - ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You'd also need to calculate price of living to determine wealth
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2534,885,058 richest person in the world. I'm not really sure how I should feel about that.
- imagistic, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0Ican'tgettothissiteitseemstobebrokenThat'sweakIcan'tgettothissiteitseemstobebrokenThat'sweakIcan'tgettothissiteitseemstobebrokenThat'sweakIcan'tgettothissiteitseemstobebrokenThat'sweak
- jarvelated, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Once you have only $100 US a year, it stops asking you to donate money. But if you are at $101 its still telling you to donate some money.
- cramd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+121,033,098 household income helped this number out.. with out my wife's income added the result was "really? that is all you make? Then it offered me a job making bricks out of mud - a full day of making bricks by hand and you could more than double what you are making today!"
- BryanL0911, on 10/12/2007, -3/+131,849,353
- evanfrey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34,669,418 go ahead and dig me down
- thefutureisours, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5hey, how come it doesn't go past 107,565 richest?
- JJanetC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@bleaknik
There are many in industrialized nations that have to work extremely hard to obtain success however... the fact that you most likely grew up in an industrialized nation puts you at a huge advantage versus the rest of the world. Free education through high school is not available throughout the world. Your parents we're able to support you through high school. Many children around the world do not have that luxury and must work at an early age (ex. 8 year old) to help survive, literally.
While I applaud you working hard to succeed, one must try to help the truly unfortunate around the world. When everyone in the world is able to work hard and succeed then and only then can the matter be put to rest. - 1Bit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Apparently there are 107,564 people who make an infinite amount of money per year.
- d10nysus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2amusing...but kinda *****. :)
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You are the 39,615,437 richest person in the world!
Yeah, right. - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This doesnt take into account my debt level. Not very accurate IMHO
- dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4inaccurate
- badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24.62%
- NoHardFelines, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3i'm only 17 and with a part time job at a pizza place yet i'm in the top 13%
- zaqintosh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I tried to type my salary, but the disgusting design of this thing caused me to vomit on my keyboard before I had the chance.
Oh well. - BrK1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5A completely lame attempt to get you to donate money. The math is horribly flawed, it's just some basic division and assuming there is an even distribution of incomes across the entire population.
- phr0ze, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7If you make 200,000 a year you are 786,570 richest.
If you make 200,001 or greater you are 107,565 richest.
If I was making 200K, I'd go for that last dollar!- winnietong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1heh. try going for just that extra cent.
- bdbr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@BrK1: "If you make 200,000 a year you are 786,570 richest.
If you make 200,001 or greater you are 107,565 richest. "
...and if you make $1 million, you are the 107,565 richest
...and if you make $1 million, you are the 107,565 richest!
...and if you make 100 million, you are the 107,565 richest!
No reason to bother after $201K; you're not getting anywhere! Or maybe this site is just broken...
(but then, none of that is really the point of the site anyway)
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