How Rich Are You (Globally)?
Jul 29th, 2008 | By Wise Snob | Category: Sustainable Living
You may feel strapped for cash, but from the global perspective, you are in a very fortunate position. So give back.
I fell across the Global Rich List, which looks at my income from a global perspective.
It doesn’t pay attention to which tax bracket I fall into or what credit score I am. Instead, it uses figures from the World Bank Development Research Group to place where I stand in the world financially. It gives me an idea of how much my money can impact others who are not as financially stable as I am. After entering my annual income, I found myself to be the 52,778,261 richest person in the world. I am in the top 0.87% of the richest people, and I am actually very privileged. See where you measure up here.
The website does not just leave you with a rank; it offers you a position to choose whether you will keep all that wealth of yours or donate just a small fraction to a global cause. The site states the following:
$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
$30 could buy you an E.R. DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.
The website then links you to a donation page, where you can donate any amount to the United Kingdom’s CARE International, a global humanitarian organization that serves over 70 impoverished countries. Whether you choose to donate or not (I truthfully did not), you can still recognize the fortune you already have and find an organization that matches your values which you can be a part of through contributions of time or money.
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