So you think that the recession has suddenly made you the poorest man in the world? Think again. With the global population more than 6 billion, calling yourself poor is most likely classist. New-age marketing tells us to think local but you might want to think globally to put things into better perspective.
Check out Global Rich List and see how you rank among the world’s population. Earn $30,000 a year and you’re in the 7.16% of the world’s population. Comfort yourself in the fact that you’re the 429,712,644th richest person.
And the site does put thing into perspective.
$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 ER 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.
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You know, there are many more ways to make money too. It’s great you show this type of thing(s) but what jobs and stuff, because we don’t exactly like in Honduras or Haiti. Maybe the site above can help some people also make money, unless they plan to live in Honduras for the rest of their lives