Today, I had a look at an article in Forbes about the world's 100
richest people in 2008. In this haloed list of people from the same countries are 32 Americans, 19 Russians and 10 Indians, most of whom live and earn in their own country. So then, lets go back home and add to their numbers!
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I saw an interesting interview of Warren Buffet sometime back in CNBC or NDTV.He spoke a lot about his personal life.He lived for many many yrs close to 40-50 yrs in the same house(with same wife ofcourse) and never travelled abroad except to China cos a lot of clients were from there.Imgine being rejected by Harvard as not good enough he sat in just place and made millions in all these years.The interview was some food for thought!
But on the same lines... isn't it glaring that the richest also happen to be from countries where there is gross economic disparity - it isn't like the entire national population is on a similar line... The out-liers in this graph are just way beyond what limits of standard deviation would permit.
And that's where the problem lies.
June 27, 2008 10:35 PM
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I can't agree more. I actually started to write about the disparity, but then this is about reaching high. Given the economic, political and infrastructural reality of India, if so many can achieve great heights, I think its time to push boundaries.
why don't these richest happen to be from the least corrupt nations then?
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