Originally Posted by sperbonzo

This is completely silly and skewed. If you make $32k including all income, bonuses, insurance, etc... in the US, you are in the top 1% earners on the planet.


Check out your own position in the world.... Global Rich List


Meanwhile:

"Per-person incomes in Turkey and Chile are where the United States level was in 1960. Malaysia is nearly there, as is Gabon. And that no-man?s-land between rich and poor countries has been filled in by China, India, Brazil, and others. Since 1960, China?s real income per person has gone up eightfold. India?s has quadrupled, Brazil?s has almost quintupled, and the small country of Botswana, with shrewd management of its mineral resources, has seen a thirty-fold increase. There is a class of nations in the middle that barely existed 50 years ago, and it includes more than half of the world?s population."



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