Everyone in the US realizes that we’re rich, but it’s fun once in a while to take a look at the numbers.
For example:
- Last year I qualified as the 817,000,000th richest person in the world, to be in the top 14% of the world, without having graduated highschool at that time.
- To be in the top one (1) percentile, you must earn 47,500 dollars in a year.
- The middle 50% made $850 dollars last year.
- 9% of people, hundreds of millions, lived on less than a dollar a day.
You should definitely check out www.GlobalRichList.com and play around with the numbers yourself, even if your a college student.
I'm Stephen. A freshman at the University of South Carolina studying International Business along with the other 1/3 of campus. Originally I'm from Charleston, but for now at least, Columbia is where I sleep at night.


