Half of American tax payers earn more money than 95% of the world's population

[Zywiec]

Based on another thread, please see how you stack up here:

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

[HuckleB]

1. Food for thought.

If anyone needs evidence that the unrec function is ludicrous. This thread had an unrec when I got to it.

Why?

:shrug:

[Zywiec]

4. Because it's hard to feel sorry for yourself

when you realize you're still doing so much better than the majority of humanity?

:shrug:

[bbinacan]

8. I hit the unrec

Gotta a problem with this?

[HuckleB]

10. Yep.

[bbinacan]

11. Congratulations!

:rofl:

[HuckleB]

14. I love boring people.

Somebody's got to do it!

:silly:

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Yeah, and what most of those 95% earn wouldn't feed a hamster here.

Just showing raw earnings means nothing when you don't factor in cost of living.

[NMMNG]

3. Indeed n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. But guilt trips are so DU don't ya know?

:evilgrin:

[Zywiec]

6. Right up there with all the whining and complaining! n/t

[Greyhound]

7. Another fatal flaw in the "global economy" scheme. n/t

[Blasphemer]

9. Indeed. I've earned $200 U.S. per month living abroad

Not only would that be impossible to live on here but even in the developing and underdeveloped countries in which I lived, it was still quite a stretch although I could survive.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Cost of living is a real factor

You can feed some villages for a year on what a tube of toothpaste costs here.

[Hissyspit]

13. That's if you have a job. nt

[amborin]

15. so many people on the planet live w/ vastly fewer

resources and comforts than we do

every time I return to the US and go into a supermarket, I marvel at the bounty we take for granted, as just one example

so many people live in grinding poverty that is just unimaginable to many, many Americans

[Zywiec]

16. ..

[vadawg]

17. woohoo im rich :) in the top .55% not bad

now if i can just take the same income to somewhere with a lower cost of living ill be laughing...