If the Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining -- what would this tiny, diverse village look like?
That's exactly what Phillip M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:
57 would be Asian
21 would be European
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere
8 would be African
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59 percent of the entire world's wealth,
.... and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 would be pregnant
1 would have a college education
1 would own a computer
The following is an anonymous interpretation:
Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a member of a very select group. And if you have a good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are among the very elite.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more fortunate than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are fortunate, more than three million people in the world can't.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare ...even in the United States.
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Makes you realise how lucky you are, doesn't it? Even the internet, which many of the people reading this would use on most days of the week, is an incredible luxury.
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Exactly what I'm talking about in <http://developer.byond.com/forum/ index.cgi?action=message_read&id=219373&forum=7&view=0>th is post...
Just the simple fact that we can sit at a computer on the internet nullifies pretty much any right we have to complain about our lives... |
SuperSaiyanGokuX wrote:
Just the simple fact that we can sit at a computer on the internet nullifies pretty much any right we have to complain about our lives... I disagree. I mean just because I'm pure evil doesn't make everything else good. We can still complain, we just have to realise other people have it worse. |