Consider the World

Consider the world as if it were shrunk down to a community of 1000 persons:

In our town of 1000-180 of us live high on a hill called the developed world.

820 of us live in the rocky bottom called the rest of the world.

The fortunate 180 on the hill have 80 percent of the wealth of the whole town, over half of the rooms in town with over two rooms per person, 85 percent of all the automobiles, 80 percent of all the TV sets, 93 percent of all the telephones, and an average income of $5000 pers person per year.

The not-so-fortunate 820 people on the bottom get by on only $700 per person per year, many of them on less than $75. They average five persons to a room.

How does the fortunate group of hill dwellers use its incredible wealth?

Well, as a group they spend less than 1 percent of their income to aid the lower land. In the US, for example, of every $100 earned:

$18.30 goes for food
$6.60 is spent on recreation and amusement.
$5.80 buys clothes
$2.40 buys alcohol.
$1.50 buys tobacco.
$1.30 is given for religious and charitable uses, and only a small part of that goes outside the U. S.

I wonder how the villagers on the crowded plain-a third of whose people are suffering from malnutrition -feel about the folks on the hill?


Makes you stop and think...huh???....



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