Reply to: How rich are you?

[stackpole]

I stuck in a quarter:

"You're in the richest people in the world!"
"I'm the 5,780,722,892 richest person on earth!"

And they still ask me for donations! I was hoping they'd tell me how to get my share of you lot's donations!

That still puts me above milan though!

[Joe Black]

Well, I beat all you lot.

"You are the richest person in the world!"

Apparently it's not about how much you have after all...

[vetran]

Usual pinko guff

Totally meaningless comparison as illustrated by Polish labourers migrating and sleeping on the streets.

[donaldduke]

Everybody who earns over 110k go to that range. Try to put 999999999999999999999999999 pounds a year and you'll be in the same range as someone making 110k. Yet, there is some kind of difference between let's say Bill gates and someone who makes 110k a year.

Bill Gates is the fat tail on the distribution curve.

Besides the figure is incorrect anyway, there over a 100,000 people in India alone who earn more than 110K a year.

I would say there are probably a few million people in the world who earn more than 110K a year.

[Pondlife]

Someone should tell Gordon Brown.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's what the New Lie spin machine was using when describing the number of people no longer in poverty under Labour.

[PerlOfWisdom]

As I said, a Dollar a Day is not unusual, and is in fact the World Banks definition of the poverty line. Earn more than $1 a day and you are officially not poor...

Someone should tell Gordon Brown.

[xoggoth]

No there isn't. I HATE THEM EQUALLY! BASTARDS!!!

PS Actually I wasn't sure if we should put gross or net as somebody said above. I bet most earning 50p a day don't pay stinking taxes, lucky sods!

PPS Hire car/taxi drivers. Are you kidding? in third world countries I've been to taxi drivers always try and charge foreigners £10 a mile regardless of living standards. You argue them down but I bet they still get enough to feed a family of six for ten years.

[Francko]

mmm looking good...


You're in the TOP 0.001%
richest people in the world!

107,565
You are the 107,565richest person in the world!

Everybody who earns over 110k go to that range. Try to put 999999999999999999999999999 pounds a year and you'll be in the same range as someone making 110k. Yet, there is some kind of difference between let's say Bill gates and someone who makes 110k a year.

[Sysman]

When i was in India earlier this year, I went on a day trip to one of the temples. Our driver was paid (by his employer not us) the grand total of 50p for 12 hours work.

But with that 50p he'll be able to buy a helluva lot more rice and chapatti flour than you can in your local shops.

[n5gooner]

mmm looking good...


You're in the TOP 0.001%
richest people in the world!

107,565
You are the 107,565richest person in the world!

[DaveB]

When i was in India earlier this year, I went on a day trip to one of the temples. Our driver was paid (by his employer not us) the grand total of 50p for 12 hours work.

As I said, a Dollar a Day is not unusual, and is in fact the World Banks definition of the poverty line. Earn more than $1 a day and you are officially not poor...

[DimPrawn]

When i was in India earlier this year, I went on a day trip to one of the temples. Our driver was paid (by his employer not us) the grand total of 50p for 12 hours work.

He's now got an MCSE and works for Wipro for twice the pay.

HTH

[Spacecadet]

at £8K I'm still in the top 12% in the world! The poor must really be very very poor!

When i was in India earlier this year, I went on a day trip to one of the temples. Our driver was paid (by his employer not us) the grand total of 50p for 12 hours work.

[expat]

No, our sandwich will not help, agreed with you but, obviously, I don't agree with milan either. The situation doesn't have to be designed for this. There are lots of macroeconomic actions that can be done by the richest government (debt cancellation, free trade and so on....

population planning? As in, contraception and abortion for anybody who wants it.

Oh, I forgot, God told Americans not to do let anybody do that.

[darmstadt]

Only:

You are the 17,434,280 richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.29%
richest people in the world!