Are you on the rich list?

Visit the website www.globalrichlist.com and punch your own salary in. It will tell you where you come in terms of global salaries.

From this I discovered that my recent pay rise means that I'm the 695,500,118 richest person in the world! In other word I'm in the Top 11.59% richest people in the world!

But there are 5.95 billion people earning less than me.
You may not have the income of Bill Gates, a Premiership footballer, or the boss of your company. But where do you rank in world terms?

• How should we think of ourselves in the light of this information?
• How much do you think you need to earn before you would call yourself rich?
• How much do you think you need to earn before God would call you rich?

Some questions to ponder

• How often can you upgrade your mobile and not be materialistic?
• How many pairs of shoes is enough?
• What percentage of your annual salary can you spend on an overseas holiday without being materialistic?
• iPod? Nano, shuffle or regular? What storage capacity is materialistic? What is acceptable?
• How long after the release of the new version of your favourite computer game do you wait before having to buy it?
• How many favourite computer games do you have that fall into the category of ‘must get the new version asap’?
• Is it possible to make an anti-materialistic stance into a god?
• Do you buy things because of a label or brand?
• Would it be acceptable to have a budget where our giving and our spending on non-essentials were identical? Or is that idealistic and unrealistic?

source: WordLive