Lets all consider how fortunate we really are. Here is something out of the Globe and Mail I was reading while eating my bacon and eggs:
Spare change? Consider yourself elite
Speaking of Afghanistan, if you 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 this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, eight Africans; 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white; 70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian. Six people would possess 59 per cent of the entire world's wealth and all six would be from the United States.
Eighty would live in substandard housing, 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer from malnutrition, one would have a university education, one would own a computer.
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 75 per cent 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 per cent of the world's wealthy
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