It's all about perspective.

Sometimes when I'm feeling particularly broke (which is pretty much, oh, always), it helps to remember that as human beings go, I've really got it pretty damn good.

The Global Rich List has found a way to quantify just how good I've got it. You enter your annual income, and it tells you where you rank financially among the entire world population. I don't know what their methodology is, so I can't attest to its accuracy, but even if the exact numbers aren't precisely correct, the point is hard to ignore: it's all about perspective, and I have a lot to be grateful for.

How rich are you? >> I'm loaded. It's official. I'm the 49,322,169 richest person on earth!