>Look, some people see the glass half full, and some see it half empty. Yours in 99% full, and you seem to be focusing on the 1% that isn't.
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>I might be wrong in my assumptions.
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>But from what you've posted, your concern is less about how good you've got it compared to the world and more about how bad you got it compared to a small group of people.

I agree with the statement that people compare their wealth by looking at others that are even more wealthy and disregard the majority of the less wealthy. And frankly... that annoys me.

Personally, I think I'm rich.... not because I do earn a lot of money or property (because I do not), but because of other things in life that I value more than money (health, family, happiness). I think it has been more than 2 years since the last time I looked at the amount of my bank account. It simply because my wife is in the accounting business and takes care of all of that. I just focus on the core business: developing solutions for my clients. Travelling, meeting a lot of different people, some of which are brilliant scientists, exchanging ideas while drinking a local beer with them in a pub somewhere on this globe give joy and meaning to my life.

Where I stand in in terms of wealth nationally or globally is about irrelevant to me, as long as I feel as rich as I do now.
But I recognise that I'm of a rare breed here