Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Hey Moneybags!

This website shows your own personalized place in the world income distribution.

It's simultaneously fun and unsettling.


5 comments:

  1. If you put your annual salary as $0, you get:

    You're in the TOP 17.62%
    richest people in the world!

    You are the 1,057,270,585 richest person in the world!


    Negative numbers give the same result.

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  2. And if you put $350,000, or $1,200,000, or pretty much any other large positive number, you get "top 1%" and "#107,565"

    It's a hoax....

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  3. even if you are making $1000 a year you are told to buy a $2400 television to help some poor person in another country. Now that's fiscal responsibility.

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  4. plus (ahem) income != wealth

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  5. I put in $1/year and learned that three billion folks live on less than $2/day. Will they share their wealth in turn?

    Luckily they don't expect me to give up my TV.

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