If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following:
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6
would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
50 would suffer from malnutrition
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are
more blessed 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 have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 70% 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.