Introduction

To qualify as rich, you need 80 % of the comparable population to have a quality of life lower than you do. This applies to both a mackerel level and to your local community. Almost everyone on planet earth has a higher standard of living to day than some one who lived 100 years ago. If you were king in the 16 hundreds or before, and you got sick, you basically winged it through witchcraft and alcohol. It took 200 more years for us to begin developing medicine.