WORLD POVERTY

excellent post. thanks for posting it.

 

Great post. Helps put things in perspective.

 

Interesting. Good numbers. Now I digress into weak attempts at humor.

If you're the one guy with the computer, I'm guessing you wouldn't be getting pop-ups which might make it worth it. though there would be nobody to email.

If all the ratios remain the same, that means consumption would be the same and these 100 people, even the malnourished ones, would weigh many, many tons.

 

Wow,

Eye opening !!

Also, it bodes well for those of us in the computer games industry...all those potential customers untapped....WOOOHOO

DD

 

Some sobering stats, KC.
I think i'm going to log off my PC, pick up my wife, eat lunch, talk about which university we're going to send the kids to, figure out whether to get the plates for the sedan or an inspection for the van, look again at how much the property taxes went up this past year on the house, and ponder again if we're going to Europe this summer or next summer.

I'm glad I've been around the world and spent months in India when Bangalore was a sleepy, poverty ridden city. Otherwise, I might think things were pretty damn good... except for this idiot goofus we have for President of the good old USA.

 

I wanted to apologize, Zion. I got you confused with KingCheetah for some reason. Nice stats. I hope people got my lousy attempt at humor.

 

"There are winners and there are losers."


Obviosly the above quote is not my sentiment, but this makes me feel better about where my family is right now, even though we have hit some tough times, we still have a roof over our head and food in the fridge.

 

Very interesting Zion.

THe lost art of perspective.

 

who cares, we got saddam

 

I'll never forget going to Egypt when I was 14. My parents had a small travel company that took group tours and I got to tag along. We spent 3 days in Cairo and 3 in Luxor visiting the standard tourist places.

When we arrived in Cairo, I couldn't believe the living conditions. The old aqueduct used to deliver water to the city years before modern plumbing lined one of the main streets with large stone archways about 10 feet wide and divided by about a 3 foot column. There were old ragged sheets draping each and every archway and entire families lived under them.

I was absolutely stunned.

Then, we went to Jamaica and little children flocked around us trying to sell hand-made goods.

Then, I saw my first real American homeless people when I lived in Austin and rode my bike past them every morning. It blew me away that one of the richest universities in the country and the Texas state capital were literally blocks from some of the saddest people I'd ever seen. It shocked me even more when I realized that most people on campus ignored them and called them "drag worms" because they lived in the allies off of the main "drag."

As a kid growing up in the suburbs, I had never seen anything like that before in America.

Then, I went to Laredo for a gig. We walked across the border into Mexico to eat at about 2am and there were 5-year-olds living in doorways selling Chiclets. In the middle of the night, little children were basically begging for money.

Just unreal.

 

It's facinating to me, Jeff, that we both had such eye opening experiences at the same age... even if mine was in the '60's instead of a few decades later. My Dad, a professor and department chair at "a major Houston university", loved to spend his summers working in different parts of the world for USAID projects. One summer, our whole family got to go. I was able to leave Junior High a month early (my Dad was very persuasive) and we spent close to 5 months going around the world, with 2 months in southern India at Bangalore.

Talk about an eye opener! About an hour before sunset, the poorest in their thousands would look for the best spots to spend the night. Right off the sidewalk of a major street seemed to be a popular choice... perhaps because the street had sidewalks. I rented a bike and rode all over the city. From it's size, you would never have dreamed that it held a million people, but it did. I've thought ever since that, as bad as the poor have it in parts of this country, that what the vast majority have as a standard of living would stun the poor of India... or Cairo, for that matter.

On the same trip, we went to Egypt and got to see the Great Pyramids (and several of the lesser ones) and much more. What a fantastic place for someone who loves history and the ancient world. (like me!) After India, Cairo looked much more prosperous. It wouldn't surprise me if their standard of living went down as Bangalore's was going up, however.

I think 14 is an excellent age to go on trips like we did. You're old enough to understand and learn so much, but young enough to retain a sense of wonder. I've never forgotten it.

I'm looking at a blow-up of my Mom and sister standing at the head of the reflection pool of the Taj Majal that's on the wall of my study. It's probably the best photo I ever took. I was lucky that we stopped on the way there in Japan, where I bought an excellent Canon camera. The Taj glows at night. It really seems to absorb whatever light there is and just give it back as an unearthly glow. That trip was well over 30 years ago and I still remember much of it like it was yesterday.

 

Awesome. I love Asian gals and with that ratio, I like my chances, especially if I'm the dude with the computer.

Of course, I'd probably unknowingly end up hitting on one of the 11 lesbians.

 

I something like this a few years ago. Pretty amazing breakdown. Makes you think about life in a different way. al 6 of the rich people are from USA

 

I remember seeing something like this a couple of years ago...A good find to really appreciate what we all have...

 

if you're the one guy with the computer, where would you download p*rn?

 

i dunno if this is just you telling a story about seeing poverty. if so thats cool...but the guys on the drag are bums. i mean they are simply bums. they don't do anything. we ignore them because they are annoying and are always sitting around asking for money. its not as if they aren't able bodied people. they just don't care about doing anything. they know they can just mooch off other people and get money from the college students who feel bad for them. i am not being cold hearted or anything either...thats just the truth. they are either lazy or addicts.

i don't care about them hanging out there. but its just so damn annoying when you are just walking to the coffee shop or walking to class and you have some bum asking you for money who is just a lazy POS.

sorry...had to vent... much better now

 

sorry to rain on everyone's parade... but the numbers don't add up according to snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

 

Well, I just think it's great that you've spent so much time with these POS. I mean how else would you know so much about them.

 

ok well i have a friend who was into helping the homeless people like them and she spent time with them. she is a really compassionate type person too and after spending time with them trying to help them get their lives together she got sick of it because they are just lazy and don't want to do anything. this is coming from someone who worked with them and tried to help them.

i'm sorry if you don't want to believe it but its true. they are just bums and they define bum. they are able bodied young people who could be working if they wanted to but they don't. there isn't much you need to know.