(October 24, 2014 at 3:19 am)Heywood Wrote: If you are supporting yourself on $23000 a year($11 an hour x 40 hrs a week X 52 weeks), you are in richest 6% of the worlds population.
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-invo...-rich-am-i
Congratuations, 94% of all the swinging dicks out there are poorer than you.
Your plight reminds me of something I heard a long time ago. There are two ways to tell if a man is rich or not.
1. Count up the things he has.
2. Count up the things he wants.
All you got to do is stop wanting things and you will be rich. I know that's easier said than done....but it can be done. Its a mindset, and perhaps knowing where you stand income wise in the world might give you the perspective to achieve that mindset.
I'm already well aware of where I stand income wise. I already understand that I really do have it pretty good.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
