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On my holiday, i saw a different side to life that ive been ignorant towards. It really made me think about how lucky i am for my spawn point. There are so many more talented hardworking people in other countries that were just nerfed by spawn point.
So i started researching statistically how lucky we are to live in developed countries.
The chances of being born in the uk is 0.8%. If you were born there, you essentially hit the lottery of spawn points.
Imagine being born with world class talent, relentless work ethic, and big ambition, only to have your life capped by a spawn point you cant control. For the 83% of the planet born outside the high income tier, working twelve hours a day, six days a week doesnt buy a safety net, an international holiday or financial freedom, it buys basic survival.
Those of us in the 17% didnt earn our baseline privileges, safety, or global mobility, we just were born in the right place at the right time.
So i started researching statistically how lucky we are to live in developed countries.
The world's ~8.2 billion people break down into standard economic classes based on the World Bank's global income classifications.
So this is also the percentage chances of you being born in these countries. You had -a 17% chance of being born in a high class country
Being born in USA/UK/West europe places you in the top 17% globally by standard of living. High income nations represent less than a fifth of humanity, yet command over 60% of total global economic output.
If you combine both middle tiers (Upper-Middle like China/Brazil and Lower-Middle like Morocco/India), roughly 74% of all people on Earth live in a middle class nation.
Simply being born in a nation like the UK automatically places an individual in the top 1 in 6 healthiest/wealthiest economies on the planet purely by geography.
| Economic Class | Benchmark Countries | World Population Share | Approx. Global Population |
| High Class (High-Income) | UK, US, Western Europe, Japan, UAE | ~17% | ~1.42 billion |
| Upper-Middle Class | China, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa | ~34% | ~2.8 billion |
| Lower-Middle Class | Morocco, India, Egypt, Vietnam, Philippines | ~40% | ~3.25 billion |
| Low Class (Low-Income) | Afghanistan, Sudan, Niger, Mozambique | ~9% | ~765 million |
So this is also the percentage chances of you being born in these countries. You had -a 17% chance of being born in a high class country
Being born in USA/UK/West europe places you in the top 17% globally by standard of living. High income nations represent less than a fifth of humanity, yet command over 60% of total global economic output.
If you combine both middle tiers (Upper-Middle like China/Brazil and Lower-Middle like Morocco/India), roughly 74% of all people on Earth live in a middle class nation.
Simply being born in a nation like the UK automatically places an individual in the top 1 in 6 healthiest/wealthiest economies on the planet purely by geography.
The chances of being born in the uk is 0.8%. If you were born there, you essentially hit the lottery of spawn points.
Imagine being born with world class talent, relentless work ethic, and big ambition, only to have your life capped by a spawn point you cant control. For the 83% of the planet born outside the high income tier, working twelve hours a day, six days a week doesnt buy a safety net, an international holiday or financial freedom, it buys basic survival.
Those of us in the 17% didnt earn our baseline privileges, safety, or global mobility, we just were born in the right place at the right time.
