Yeah see - that's not right at all. Sobering is putting it mildly - how in hell large a scale is this?? I mean I make nowhere near what the execs do and surely...this is inaccurate!! Top 1.26% living paycheque to paycheque???

I suddenly hate Starbucks even more for no logical reason at all. (lol?)

I'm the 75,700,870 richest person on earth! Discover how rich you are! >>

You should hate Starbucks. Their straight coffee is over-priced and their other "coffees" are really bad for you.

I suspect the meme-engine is pretty accurate. As ssurprize pointed out, we in the west consume a monstrous share of the world's resources.

Out of the six billion people on earth, the five billion are starving africans, asians and latin americans, what do you expect...

wait, I'd like to show you something ...

links "If the world were a village of 100":

http://www.familycare.org/news/if_the_world.htm

http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/coup-de-coeur_en.html


:) Other than that interesting meme. And i'm in the top 13.52%.. Now I feel really poor...

Thanks for those links, they are also useful illustrations of the disparity of the world's wealth.

And for the record, I wasn't surprised at my place on the economic ladder so much as sobered by the graphic illustration.