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| How Rich Are You?; ..compared to others around the world | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 13 2010, 12:51 PM (588 Views) | |
| taiwan_girl | May 13 2010, 12:51 PM Post #1 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Puts things in perspective......... All to often, we do not appreciate what we have, but only yearn for what we don't. Global Rich List Having said that, income is not the only determiner of living standards. From my experience, being poor in a "1st world" country can be a more difficult experience than being poor by the same 1st world standards, living in a 3rd world country. In other words, in the UK or US, a family having an income of less than US$10,000/yr is probably considered poor. However, that same income in many parts of the world will make you very rich. |
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| Piano*Dad | May 13 2010, 01:26 PM Post #2 |
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Bull-Carp
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...type personal information into a box on some web site that may record the information together with my IP address for their own use, or for sale to some other organizations ... Nah, I think I'll skip it. The risk may be low, but so it the reward. |
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| Aqua Letifer | May 13 2010, 02:09 PM Post #3 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Just do it a number of times with vastly different responses. I'm entirely paranoid about such things and I'm certain the risk here is ridiculous small. |
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| John Galt | May 13 2010, 02:17 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Thanks very much for posting this TG. You're right, definitely keeps things in perspective. |
| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 13 2010, 02:19 PM Post #5 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Well, actually it doesn't. It listed me at around 16 millionth richest person in the world, which is nonsense. I'm not sure I'm the 16 millionth in the US. They just want to make you feel good so you'll give them some cash. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | May 13 2010, 02:30 PM Post #6 |
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Cheers
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Whether you put 500k or 1MM it says you're the 107,000 richest person in the world. THere are 100k people that make between those two sums in the US alone. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| John D'Oh | May 13 2010, 03:14 PM Post #7 |
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MAMIL
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It wouldn't tell me my rank, but just said I was overpaid. I suspect this is another very sophisticated scam put together by my boss in order to save him money. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Dewey | May 13 2010, 05:20 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's a favorite website. Even if it isn't 100% accurate, it's close enough to be a real eye opener. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| ivorythumper | May 13 2010, 05:30 PM Post #9 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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If the rest of the world would get it's sh!t together culturally, politically, economically and socially then there wouldn't be these sorts of disparities. But whenever the West goes elsewhere they are accused of colonialism. Go figure. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Piano*Dad | May 13 2010, 05:35 PM Post #10 |
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Bull-Carp
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Glad he figured you out so well. |
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| Axtremus | May 13 2010, 07:08 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Their database tops out at 200,000 USD. It gives you different results for 199,999 USD and 200,000 USD. But everything above 200,000 USD shows you're the 107,565th richest person. It just means you're "off the scale," even though it's just that particular scale.
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| Axtremus | May 13 2010, 07:11 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It says: "$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market." Is that for real? |
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| apple | May 13 2010, 07:13 PM Post #13 |
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one of the angels
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altho we live modestly, i know we are rich...I don't know why we don't spend a bit more. i really would like a car with a radio |
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| apple | May 13 2010, 07:14 PM Post #14 |
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one of the angels
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i would imagine.. lots of apples are 2.99 a pound |
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| ivorythumper | May 13 2010, 07:15 PM Post #15 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I was talking to a friend today about solidarity with the poor -- while he was driving his own car. Solidarity admits of a bandwidth. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| bachophile | May 13 2010, 07:41 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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here's a real tear jerker... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUCTbi_XZs&feature=related |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| John Galt | May 14 2010, 02:12 AM Post #17 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Nearly a fifth of the world doesn't have an improved water source. And more than forty percent are without basic sanitation. There is so much I take for granted. |
| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| Dewey | May 14 2010, 02:33 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Well, I'm not sure, since I don't know the going rate for organic apples. But probably isn't too far off the mark for the price of 1-2' fruit tree saplings bought in bulk in Honduras. Realize that due to the cost of living difference, 1 USD has something like 7 or 8 times the purchasing power in Honduras, where the average person lives on about $2,000/year, than it does here. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 14 2010, 02:47 AM Post #19 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Or you could say that we have made such progress that 4/5 of the world has an improved water source and fully 60% have sanitation facilities. That's HUGE. |
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| Klaus | May 14 2010, 02:52 AM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You get that number when you enter around $150K. I'm off thinking about a better-paid job
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| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Phlebas | May 14 2010, 03:28 AM Post #21 |
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Bull-Carp
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There's benefit to the cup-half-full outlook as well as the cup-half-empty view. In this case the cup-half-empty (or 43% empty, if you're talking about who had a pot to **** in, and who doesn't) provides a sense of urgency to act, which is probably warranted because of the hardships and number of deaths from diseases (cholera, etc.) attributed to lack of sanitation. Call me a glass half empty kind of guy, but I'm not ready to hand out high-fives over that statistic. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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