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starship-design: FW: Interesting thought
- To: "'Berman, Andrea'" <andrea.berman@spmail.jsc.nasa.gov>, "'starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu'" <starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu>, "'Levine, Howard'" <hlevine@erols.com>, "'Brian_Levine_at_pnpur1@mail.brodeur.com'" <Brian_Levine_at_pnpur1@mail.brodeur.com>, "'Harris, Craig'" <craig.harris@compudata.com>, "'Faye, Hillary'" <HillaryF@cmbinfo.com>
- To: "'Jackson, Kelly'" <kjteacher1@aol.com>, "'Rosenthal, Matt'" <mattr@mit.edu>, "'Levine_M'" <LevineM@po1.phl.bls.gov>, Mark Miles External <Mark@intermail.com>
- Subject: starship-design: FW: Interesting thought
- From: David Levine <David@InterWorld.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:30:37 -0400
- Reply-To: David Levine <David@InterWorld.com>
- Sender: owner-starship-design
I thought this was humorous. Well, okay, frightening is more like it.
-David
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>From: DaVe McComb
>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 1996 9:16 AM
>To: Development
>Subject: FW: Interesting thought
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>From a friend of mine at Microsoft (just what you would expect).
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>>>> > Michael Jordan makes over $300,000 a game or $10,000 a minute
>>>> > (assuming 30 minutes/game). Assuming $40 million in endorsements next
>>>> > year, he'll be making $178,100 a day(working or not)! If he sleeps 7
>>>> > hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums
>>>> > dance in his head. If he goes to see Independence Day, it'll cost him
>>>> > $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there. He makes
>>>>$7,415/hr more
>>>> > than minimum wage and $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
>>>> > If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him
>>>> > only 12 days. If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement
>>>> > money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
>>>> > He could take 1/100,000th of his income and buy some poor college
>>>> > student 5200 packages of Ramen. If you were given a tenth of a penny
>>>> > for every dollar he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a
>>>>year.
>>>> > Next year, he'll make more than twice as much as all of our past
>>>> > presidents for all of their terms combined, and if you win the lottery,
>>>> > you will still only get 1/100th of his salary each year.
>>>> >
>>>> > *****BUT*****
>>>> >
>>>> > Jordan will STILL have to earn this income for 270 more years to have a
>>>> > net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates!
>>>> >
>>>> > MORAL: STAY IN SCHOOL, GET AN EDUCATION, and BUY MICROSOFT PRODUCTS
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>>> GO GEEKS!
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