Where are you on the world Rich List?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It’s not clear to me whether the results are calculated using purchasing power parity numbers or market exchange rates. I suspect the latter, which would be rather misleading.

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I’m in the top 12% worldwide which places me around the bottom five perecent or lower in this thread and looking around my apartment, it really shows.

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Wow, that’s quite surprising…maybe I should be donating more to charity - although I very conscientously donate 10% of my gross salary annually. Oh, and this is a single-income household…

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I’m glad that I give generously to a number of charities. My result was:

I think I’m gonna go buy some stuff from the Heifer International catalog now. Geez.

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Hmmm, I am in the top 4.62% according to that site.

Then they ask for a donation of 24.30, which they call one hour of my salary. I don’t make 24.30 an hour, I make a reasonable amount less. I am not sure how they are calculating the numbers but something is wrong. In the US 24.30 per hour should = 48,600 a year (2000 hours *24.30).

Hmm, I put in 100,00 as yearly income and it reports an hour salary of 69.44, which is off by 19.44 per hour.(That is using 40 hour per week*50 weeks a year for 2000 hours per year to = 100,000 per year). Using their numbers the work year has only 1440 hours which breaks down to 36 weeks. Hmmm, I wonder where my extra 14 weeks of vaction went because I could really use it.

Also looking a little further, someone making 40,000 a year is the 3.17 percentile. Someone making 50,000 is in the 0.889 percentile.

I don’'t believe these number are anywhere near correct. I could be wrong but this just doesn’t look right to me. I can’t believe there is such a difference between 40 and 50 grand a year. It’s not that big of a jump.

Slee

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The site reccommends that I donate one hours salary…a grand total of $5.50. Egads, I think I’m gonna need that money for myself.

I’m hanging out in India right now (posting from a Pondicherry net cafe) and even my paltry can’t-quite-afford-dinner-every-night earnings seem like a fortune compared to the families living on highway medians and people who don’t own a single thing that I’ve met.