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#1 Geeks vs Jocks
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Mammoth
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Taken from Digg:
Michael Jordan having "retired," with $40 million in endorsements, makes $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 a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there. If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it. He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage. He'll make $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 a whole 12 hours. 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'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round. Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st. If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year. He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon. While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600. This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn't it?
But..
If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 450 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today.

Microsoft sucks, but Billy G shows that geeks truly rule the world. (Imagine if the Geeks revolted and shut down all the servers around the world..) |
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#2 Re: Geeks vs Jocks
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Tills
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Everyone would cry, cause youtube would be gone, google wouldn't search...and you couldn't get those precious text and phone calls...fun. |
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#3 Re: Geeks vs Jocks
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Mammoth
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And yes, even the gay ol' RAZR was made by total geeks. |
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#4 Re: Geeks vs Jocks
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Ryan
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I wouldn't say geeks rule the world. Although alot of people are employed by them. Ultimately I think movers and shakers are guys like Richard Branson - Alot of people also work for him...
Geeks shutting down the world, is a funny thought. Ultimately it's not far off - Die Hard 3 anyone? |
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#5 Re: Geeks vs Jocks
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Mammoth
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ryan wrote: I wouldn't say geeks rule the world. Although alot of people are employed by them. Ultimately I think movers and shakers are guys like Richard Branson - Alot of people also work for him...
Geeks shutting down the world, is a funny thought. Ultimately it's not far off - Die Hard 3 anyone? Hah, but the geeks managing the computers in his company could totally destroy his company. Because computers link the world, geeks rule it. |
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#6 Re: Geeks vs Jocks
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Ryan
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I guess ultimately geeks are behind everything yeah. hahah |