http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/03/24/perspective.aspxIf 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. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere 8enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/03/24/perspective.aspx#39552Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:02:51 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:39552rajsanand<p>I understand the message that is been given is great and it makes us look at the world with a different perspective, but the calculations are wrong.</p> <p>If 6 people own 59% of the wealth, then I am sure all the 6 would be able to own computers.</p> <p>How did it come up to 1 and if the 6 people (from USA) own 59% of the wealth then I am damn sure they could afford college education(that is only if money is the reason for not getting a college education).</p> <p>According to this list <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires_%282008%29">en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_billionaires_%282008%29</a></p> <p>Top 6 richest people include 3 Indians and 1 mexican, that leave only two americans. There are 32 americans in the entire list of 100. So I am trying to figure how come out of 100 6 americans will be the richest Just does not add up???</p> <p>Something really wrong with these calculations.</p> <img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=39552" width="1" height="1">