On 9/23/05, Christopher L Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Freeze wrote: > > US and I saw an interesting fact: Out of the top 5, 4 were college dropouts. > > (The bottom 5 were all from the Wal-Mart family.) > > IMO, the part that is interesting is that it is in direct contrast > to the statistics for the general public, where education level is > directly related to ecomonic prosperity. >
Ah, but the rich are different from you and me! >From the MSNBC article on the new Forbes 400 list: "What makes the super-rich different?" "Those left behind made room for 45 new names, 10 of them members of Chicago's Pritzker clan, whose intergenerational squabble resulted in the carving up of the family's $17 billion hotel and manufacturing fortune." "But not all the new names stem from old family fortunes. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page prove a good idea can still make a bundle; bond guru William Gross' steady hand on volatile markets created his $1 billion fortune; and Kenneth Hendricks shows a guy can still make a buck in the unsexy trade of building supplies." "High oil and gas prices also helped: T.Boone Pickens, a perennial suspect for two decades, finally makes an appearance on the list, but his $750 million pile is dwarfed by the $4.2 billion net worth of Houston pipeline maven Daniel Duncan." For a graphical view on the distribution of income in the US see: http://www.lcurve.org/ -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
