starship-design: FW: Interesting thought

[David Levine <David@InterWorld.com>]

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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