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Michael Jordan will make over $300 000 a game : $10 000 a minute, assuming he averages about 30 minutes per game.
Assuming $40 million in endorsements this year, he’ll be making $178100 a day (working or not)!
Assuming 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 , 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 per hour more than the minimum wage (after the wage hike).
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 every second.
He’d 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 his tax deferred account, he will hit the federal cap of $9 500 for such accounts at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st, 1998.
If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you’d be living comfortably at $65 000 a year.
He’ll make about $19.60 while watching the hundred meter dash in the Olympics. He’ll make about $15600 while the Boston Marathon is being run.
While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he’ll pull in about $5600.
Next year he’ll make more than twice as much as all of our past presidents for all their terms combined.
Amazing, isn’t it?
BUT: Jordan will have to save 100% of his income for 270 years to have a net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates today !
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
By: Harry Truman
Source: Harry Truman in Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, Morrow & Company, 1973, page 78
Folkpsychology, as Atran and his colleagues see it, is essential to getting along in the contemporary world, just as it has been since prehistoric times. It allows us to anticipate the actions of others and to lead others to believe what we want them to believe; it is at the heart of everything from marriage to office politics to poker. People without this trait, like those with severe autism, are impaired, unable to imagine themselves in other people’s heads.
The process begins with positing the existence of minds, our own and others’, that we cannot see or feel. This leaves us open, almost instinctively, to belief in the separation of the body (the visible) and the mind (the invisible). If you can posit minds in other people that you cannot verify empirically, suggests Paul Bloom, a psychologist and the author of “Descartes’ Baby,†published in 2004, it is a short step to positing minds that do not have to be anchored to a body. And from there, he said, it is another short step to positing an immaterial soul and a transcendent God.
...for Churchill sleeps naked and remains so on such sorties [looking for his valet in the morning]. He will don a robe when visiting other homes, "in deference," as he puts it, to his hosts' "views of propriety," but at Chartwell he feels free to roam around nude; as one of his servants will later explain, it seems "completely natural to him." It did not seem natural to a young housemaid who has just left his employ. Looking up the stairwell one morning she beheld, on the top step, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill in the buff--all 210 pounds of him--a massive pink man with a bald, smooth dome and broad if slightly stooped shoulders, glaring down at her, as one of Winston's secretaries remembers, "like a laser beam." The girl fled the house shrieking. She has [since] sent for her belongings and her pay.