http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4981946Zywiec (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:21 PM
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HOW RICH ARE YOU?
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out.
Just enter your annual income into the box below and hit 'show me the money'
http://www.globalrichlist.com /
I suggest one click on the link provided by the primitive, to see.
nickinSTL (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:25 PM
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2. top 2.88% in the world
number 173,043,479.
Doesn't take what I OWE into account, though...
I'd be fine if it wasn't for the @#$% credit card...and, yes, I know, I shouldn't use it...but, it's hard to avoid when you're NOT rich (by American standards) and supporting 2 adults.
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:28 PM
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3. Cool...I haven't seen HyperCard since my old Mac II.
I'm guessing this wasn't an MIT project.
I checked out for Playboy Pedro, who ranks in the top .07% wealthiest people in the world, according to the link.
No surprise there.
county worker (135 posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:29 PM
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4. Wealth is your net assets not your annual income.
Add up the market value of what you own plus any liquid assets like cash and marketable securities. Subtract what you owe and that is how wealthy you are. I have a pretty good income but I'm not wealthy by any means.
But the test explicitly states it's based upon income, not assets.
That's an imperfect definition of "wealth," but nothing in life is exactly perfect.
Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:32 PM
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5. Top 1% with just my income top 0.5% combined with my wifes.
Madam Mossfern (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:32 PM
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6. Top .78% but.......
I live in New Jersey in a County that has close to the highest taxes.
Yeah, these greedy Republicans who run New Jersey, always raising taxes.
GoesTo11 (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:32 PM
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7. I tried putting in the $500,000 that financial execs are whining is too little
# 107,565
TOP 0.001%
bastards.
(actually, it tops out with $210,000 getting the same answer).
Mr. McD (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:33 PM
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8. BS - top - 0.43% I don't think so.
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:41 PM
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16. $150,000 is the top 5% in the US
We're the richest country in the world and there's only 300 million of us. If your income is in the top 5% in this country, how much better off are you than the billions in complete poverty?
tyedyeto (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 10:43 PM
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43. If $150,000 is in the top 5% and my paltry $17,500 is between 11 &12% there is something drastically wrong with the world and especially our country.
The Fat Che plops into the punchbowl:
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 11:03 PM
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45. India, China, Africa
Think about it.
Several billion people, most in complete poverty.
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 12:07 AM
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62. complete poverty would be they have nowhere to live & nothing to eat.
not the case in china at least. most people have housing & food, even if it's not luxurious.
though plenty of people in luxury in china; they bought more cars than americans this year.
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 12:16 AM
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66. 10% on less than a dollar a day
130 million people in China in complete poverty. There are many more people who are in complete dispair in this world than even live in the US. Obviously our wealth and income, either one, is the top 10% in the world.
I cannot understand why people fight this. I have never seen a child in this country who had no other choice but to look for food in a garbage dump. There are millions like that around the world.
Reterr (941 posts) Thu Feb-05-09 01:56 AM
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72. Huh?
A lot of people in China live in the kind of poverty that we Americans can't even imagine-I have lived there.... Don't believe the RW conspiracy garbage-if you are an American (westerner really), you have it better than most of the world. We kid ourselves when we think otherwise...
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 03:14 AM
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83. huh? was there something in my post about most chinese being richer than westerners, or not being poor by western standards?
what does "complete poverty" mean to you? to me it means homeless & starving. are most chinese homeless & starving? you tell me. i know someone who lives there, too. she never mentioned that.
"Complete poverty" to a primitive means having to use the computer at the library for internet service.
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:36 PM
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12. 11.5%
Some people on this board need a reality check.
franksolich has said that for years; punch in the subway cat's income, for example.
Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:43 PM
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17. Yeah, but it doesn't matter.
You're in the TOP 0.01% richest people in the world!
If you only knew how little I care
Of course the mikey primitive doesn't care, any more than he cares about 0bama being wealthy, or Vast Teddy being wealthy, or the Bostonian Billionaire being wealthy, or Blarney Frank being wealthy, &c., &c., &c.
Since they're Democrats, it's okay.
NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 07:45 PM
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20. ROFL
I somehow doubt 65,000/year in DC puts me in the top 1% of richest people in the world.
Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 03:11 AM
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82. Then you are seriously out of touch with the way most of the humans on our planet live. I think this little excercise was designed to help inform people like yourself.
Uh-huh.
Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 08:02 PM
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22. This year top 0.01% ...WOW
Doesn't feel like it.
spooky3 (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 08:43 PM
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23. we'd all be a lot richer if it weren't for the Bush disaster.
Scooter24 (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 09:18 PM
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29. We're in the top 0.001%...
Hmm...that seems kind of high, but whatever.
alittlelark (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 09:22 PM
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30. It says we are among the top .001%.... BS Try buying a house for cash in Silicon Valley for 3x our yearly income. There is NO way we are among the 107,000 richest in the world.....not possible. I looked at their 'calculations' page and it was QUITE sparse in detail.
There's a lot of primitive bickering at this bonfire; it's a big one.
Redbear (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 09:52 PM
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39. As for wealth, Ive heard it this way
Do you have indoor plumbing?
If you answered yes, you are already in the top 50% of wealth.
Do you own a car?
Welcome to the top 10% of wealth
tyedyeto (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 10:37 PM
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42. You are the 701,964,412 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 11.69%
And I earn less than $18,000 per year. Even earning that much, I've had to cancel my health insurance, which amounted to approximately 1/5th of my gross income. It was a choice between paying the rent or having a benefit that I have only used 3 times over the past 6 years. Money in my pocket for gas, groceries etc fell behind my health care needs.
Ioo (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 11:15 PM
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51. You are the 34,567,347 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.57%
madville (278 posts) Wed Feb-04-09 11:34 PM
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57. Top 2.3%, I really do feel I'm rich
I make $43,000 a year. I have a house, a truck, a little boat and trailer. I have cable TV, high speed internet, I play golf a few times a month, I have health insurance, my son has health insuance, I have $4,000 in my checking account and more in savings.
I really dobelieve I am in the top 2.3% in the world, we do live in the wealthiest country so it only makes sense the portion of our population that lives in poverty is still probably in the top 20% in the world.
greenbriar (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-04-09 11:54 PM
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60. not very
= 37,285,340
You are the 37,285,340richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.62%
richest people in the world!
Redbear (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 12:29 AM
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68. It would be great fun to explain to the 2.6 billion people without basic sanitation
and the 1.1 billion without any electricity ever how they are really better off because they don't have to pay utility bills.
franksolich's question too.
Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-05-09 02:56 AM
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79. It seems like there is a disconnect among many here doesn't it?
Oh yes.
