The Global Rich List puts your personal wealth in perspective. Compare your income not just with Bill Gates and Ingvar Kamprad, but everyone else on the planet. You’ll be surprised…
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17 March 2008 at 7:52 am
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11 October 2006 at 11:25 pm
'Pong
I’m the 682,127,748. Would be happier in less expensive city.
12 October 2006 at 7:00 am
Garth
The Global Rich List slides off the brain. It’s a new twist on the Total Perspective Vortex: not only are you a tiny dot, but you’re a massively *greedy* tiny dot.
“USD$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.”
- The Global Rich List
“… and into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
“To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
12 October 2006 at 6:55 pm
Stilgherrian
@Garth: hat’s a well-spotted connection, thank you. And you’re right — we get so wrapped up in our day-to-day problems that we forget that we are, by world standards, very very wealthy indeed. You or I could forego 1% of our income and massively transform the lives of an entire village.
Will we, though?
@’Pong: Which city did you have in mind? We have passports…
12 October 2006 at 9:57 pm
Snarky Platypus
“You or I could forego 1% of our income and massively transform the lives of an entire village.
Will we, though?”
Some of us already do…