gmoney
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Tue Sep-14-10 12:23 AM
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"A flat million dollars a year..." |
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listening to the audiobook of Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" and he's describing a fabulously rich executive managing the affairs of the single richest person, sort of Bill Gates plus Warren Buffett, in a time far in the future, and Vonnegut quaintly describes his outlandish salary as "a flat million dollars a year, plus benefits and stock options..."
I'd wager there are at least 100 people at Goldman Sachs getting more than that each year... 1000 people maybe? I think that's now about the minimum salary in major league sports, no?
Interesting book so far Kurt, but you woefully underestimated wealth disparity and wage inflation among the upper crust.
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MilesColtrane
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Tue Sep-14-10 09:08 AM
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1. I imagine that Vonnegut's ghost would let the reader adjust for inflation. |
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How did he know that people were still going to be reading his book fifty years later?
That outlandish salary would be over $7 million a year now.
While that's not just stoopid money, it is pretty damned good.
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