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![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 31491 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 ![]() ![]() |
This is a pretty cool site. The Global Rich List You enter your annual income and it tells you where you stand to the rest of the world. It also gives you some idea about things you could do with some of your wealth. I am the 31,560,0000th richest person in the world. That puts me in the top 0.53% Makes me want to go out and splurge on a cup of coffee. |
Knot Dune near Calico(Tmp?) Send message Joined: 22 Sep 99 Posts: 1314 Credit: 1,124,651 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I feel like I'm on the top of the food chain! I'm the 49,847,130 richest person in the world! I'm at the TOP 0.83% richest people in the world! Of course that's if I add my wife's income. She deals drugs at WalMart. ![]() Now they want me to donate! Here's my donation! ![]() PRR #5550 4-4-4-4 |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 ![]() ![]() |
Gee im poor. only 4.03 ![]() Old James |
Rasputin Send message Joined: 13 Jun 02 Posts: 1764 Credit: 6,132,221 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Well, that was embarrassing. I put my income in there and they insisted on donating money to me. :/ |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Whow! I never knew I was so wealthy. I think I've got enough to go to Asda and buy a coffee. You are the 52,349,315richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.87% richest people in the world! It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8964 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 ![]() |
You are the 47,380,745 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.78% richest people in the world. ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 ![]() |
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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 ![]() |
729 410 882, 12.15% And I already give 10% to assorted charities that I am interested in so they can't have any more. lol Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6662 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I can't believe this, but,,, 57,864,434 0.96% I am in so much debt, that this doesn't make sense. I have one huge advantage. My father owns my house with no mortgage, and I am buying it month by month with no interest. If I miss a payment, then no big deal. That is the only way I am able to survive with all I owe. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 2940 Credit: 19,199,902 RAC: 11 ![]() ![]() |
Income is related to how rich you are (especially your potential to be rich), but most people think of wealth in terms of how much you have in assets. I guess after the market meltdown in 2008, there are many who don't feel very rich at all. Since this site is encouraging charitable gifts, the safer yardstick for the website to use would be income, unless you've been without an income for the last two years. |
Michael ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4609 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 ![]() ![]() |
= 107,565 You are the 107,565 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.001% richest people in the world (That's combining my wifes income...) |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I entered what I get so far per year, Seems strange to Me, But then It's a much bigger pond for this fish. :D The site is also including the very large number of people in very poor countries that live on a few dollars (like < $20) per year. That makes all but some of the homeless wealthier than 80% of the worlds population. ![]() ![]() BOINC WIKI |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34583 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 ![]() ![]() |
You are the 887,586,617 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 14.79% richest people in the world! With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Rather than before tax take home income, why not key in your actual tax paid average income. I suspect your not as rich as you think, despite all the hunter gatherer have-no-fixed-home numbers. It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18 ![]() ![]() |
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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 ![]() |
IMHO, its all just a number game. We need to do something like looking at after tax income, after fixed expenses like minimum food, clothing, shelter and health care, and then converting left over money into something tangible - like how many pounds of good quality steel you could buy per day, delivered to where you are located. (You may not actually need any good quality steel, but it would be a meaningful comparative indication of purchasing power, corrected for your local circumstances.) To put it another way, $50,000 per year is a decent amount if you live on and own a productive farm near a mid sized town in Canada (and qualify for local health care), but its hardly anything if you are renting in downtown Tokyo, depend on prescription drugs, and don't have health insurance. A well fed healthy hunter gatherer who sells a few pelts might be just as rich as you or me. Years ago I saw a list of how long a person had to work to buy one days worth of food, broken down by country. Ranged from a few minutes in North America to all day in large parts of the world. I think that was much more meaningful. ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Apr 00 Posts: 1296 Credit: 45,357,093 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I entered what I get so far per year, Seems strange to Me, But then It's a much bigger pond for this fish. :D My kids were shocked to discover their allowance made them rich. Once they recovered, I sent them out to mow the lawn. :) ![]() Join the PACK! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 ![]() ![]() |
I'm the 5,780,722,892 richest person on earth! ![]() I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 ![]() ![]() |
It's not what you got, it's what you do with it... |
![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 31491 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 ![]() ![]() |
It's not what you got, it's what you do with it... Um, were talking money here. Not something else. |
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