From time to time we see the lottery prizes soar into the hundreds of millions and we all have fun speculating about what we’d do if we won. But here is a little something to put life in perspective

Do you have the following 4 things ?

1. Clothing (shirt/shoes/pants/socks) to wear each day

2. Food to eat every day (even enough to require you to go on a diet)

3. An indoor place to sleep every night

4. An indoor place to answer natures call

If you have those 4 things you are richer than 75% of the planet (or richer than around 4 billion people).

If in addition to the above you have

1. A bank account with $ 100 dollars in it

2. Money in your pocket (say $ 20)

then you are richer than 80% of the planet (or richer than about 5 billion people)

If you also have regular access to the internet, use of a car, cable TV and you can take a vacation every year or two then you are richer than 90% of the planet, which means that you are richer than 5.4 billion people.

So life is pretty darn good, isn’t it ?