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| What would the world look like if compressed to 100 people? |
| 2007-11-13 |
| Click the link - given the entertaining graphics there's no good way to copy it to this page to save y'awl the effort! I thought this was clever. I don't know how true it is, and some of the line items start out good but end up lacking the distinctions or details I think are important - probably because it is aimed at a Western audience. It would be interesting to see this if it were aimed at different audiences, and it would be interesting to see what it would look like if it were not just a snapshot but included trends as well. Anyone want to add any detail or clarification to any of these? :-) |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #19 Since when did Yosemite Sam move to Latin America? |
| Posted by: Ulaising Jones3412 2007-11-13 18:42 |
| #18 "What would the world look like if compressed to 100 people?" And Rosie O'Porko would still be one fat ass biotch..... |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2007-11-13 16:36 |
| #17 5 Americans control 32% of the wealth? Sweet! Now go wash my car. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-11-13 16:35 |
| #16 Leftist carp about wealth and scheme to come to power and redistribute wealth without realizing it must be created. This particual bunch of loonies act like the US took wealth from others. Bull. Its not a zero sum game. Hey leftists: We control much of the world's wealth because WE CREATED IT! Biotech, transistors, cell phones, the PC, the internet, etc - they did not exist wordl-wide and now they do thanks to the US. Our brains, our work, our inventiveness and adaptability created wealth where there was none. Go piss up a rope with your socialist collectivist BS. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-11-13 16:29 |
| #15 And 20 of you are plotting on how to convert, enslave, or kill the other 80. |
| Posted by: Angu Dingle 2007-11-13 16:19 |
| #14 "33 would be without access to a safe water supply" That's 2 billion people without safe water, and yet they live long enough to reproduce. I think that's a bit like Excaliber's point in comment #2. How safe is "safe"? |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-11-13 15:45 |
| #13 Hey, how come the gay guy's Greek? And |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-11-13 15:34 |
| #12 Noticed that too, eh |
| Posted by: Chedderhead 2007-11-13 15:19 |
| #11 Hey, how come the gay guy's Greek? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-11-13 14:51 |
| #10 100% of the people reading that page will suffer an epilectic attack. Sea: Apparently you forgot to subtract the LLL crowd. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-11-13 14:48 |
| #9 Lets see the real benefit of a college education: 5 Americans (including Canada) control 32% of the world's wealth, yet there is only 1 person in the whole world with a college education and by odds is most likely to be a non-white, male, heterosexual Asian. So, you see, we don't need no freeking colleges. Save your money and teach your kids Golf. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back!` 2007-11-13 12:59 |
| #8 5 would control 32% of the entire worldÂ’s wealth, and all of them would be US citizens Okay, apparantly the Queen of England, King of Saudi Arabia and the Catholic Church are all American citizens? Not buying it? Controlling wealth while excluding land is bogus twisting of numbers. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-11-13 12:04 |
| #7 95% would be batshit insane and do things daily that are against their own best interests, and those of their neighbors, because of (religion/clan/honor/tribe/laziness/pride). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-11-13 12:01 |
| #6 100% of the people reading that page will suffer an epilectic attack. I gotta go lie down now. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-11-13 11:17 |
| #5 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation And her name is Kate Moss. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-13 09:47 |
| #4 7 people would have access to the Internet Which, given the above, explains the comments to videos on YouTube. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-13 09:45 |
| #3 # 1 (only one) would have a college education. And that one means the market is still so saturated with useless qualifications someone with a Master's degree is permanently underemployed in downtown Toronto. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-13 09:44 |
| #2 80 would live in substandard housing If 80 out of 100 live in it - whatever it is - then it is standard housing. Al Gore palaces would be above standard. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-13 09:41 |
| #1 5 US Americans and Canadians 5 would control 32% of the entire worldÂ’s wealth, and all of them would be US citizens Except the ones who are Canadians and not "US Americans". It irritates me to no end India gets lumped in with Afghanistan and North Korea. "Asian", indeed. They must all be from Asialand. This leftist garbage is always overtly racist. Not just masochistically anti-white but racist in the old fashioned sense. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-13 09:39 |