Global Rich List - So you think you've got it tough?

richlevy • May 6, 2010 10:25 pm
http://globalrichlist.com/

Input your income and be ranked against the other 6.7 billion people on this mudball. Sure 50 millionth doesn't sound great, until you realize that you're in the top %1.

An even six figures US ($100,000) ranks 39,615,049 or %0.66
classicman • May 6, 2010 10:43 pm
Heck, $24,000 puts you in the TOP 10.29%
Flint • May 6, 2010 11:34 pm
I'm the very top guy on the chart...in the top 1% . . .

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glatt • May 7, 2010 8:49 am
I was at the very top of the chart too, and then I was like, "wait a second." I support 3 other people who have zero income. So I divided my annual income by 4 and plugged that in. Now I'm in the top 13%.
DanaC • May 7, 2010 9:08 am
I'm in top 11.5%
Cloud • May 7, 2010 10:13 am
It not hard - just slip your hand in your pocket and pull out something special.


is this a prOn charity?
skysidhe • May 8, 2010 1:33 am
DID YOU KNOW..?

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined.
Spexxvet • May 8, 2010 11:49 am
That's fair.
classicman • May 8, 2010 12:07 pm
Also, he pays infinitely more income taxes than all of them combined
INFINITELY MORE,
they pay ZERO.
lumberjim • May 8, 2010 12:25 pm
that's fair.
fargon • May 8, 2010 2:19 pm
I'm $1200.00 short of being in the top 10% of the world.
TheMercenary • May 15, 2010 10:26 am
Interesting, but it does sound more like a marketing scheme to get people to donate to some organization. Guilt is not really a great motivator when it comes to charity.
HungLikeJesus • May 15, 2010 5:25 pm
As a test, I put in various amounts from $201,000 to $200,000,000 and they all were in the position 107,565. I think their calculations are suspect.

EDIT: I just looked at their methodology - it's based on assumptions about assumptions about very old data.
ZenGum • May 15, 2010 10:10 pm
DanaC;654431 wrote:
I'm in top 11.5%


Another two grand a year and, come the revolution, you'd have to put yourself against the wall.. :)
toranokaze • May 21, 2010 1:56 pm
:(

I was raked all the way on the left