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The Almighty Buck
The NYT Magazine this week focuses on a topic near and dear to its heart: money. Stories about the dotcom boom, priorities, the cult of Wall Street. Some of the stories are interesting, as with this comparison of how far a dollar goes depending on where you live. Some are disturbing, like this one on CEO salaries. And several are (unintentionally) humorous, like this one about bankrupt Etoys and this one, by a rich writer who believes everyone else is rich too.
An unemployed person gets a WEEKLY manicure and pedicure? Excuse me... weekly!?
And that gives her an hour a week when she can feel normal? NORMAL?
You are far from normal lady!
And no the peace prize doesn't count. Shit they gave on of those things to freaking Yassar Arafat ok. I'm talking economics or physics ok fella.
>>[ufenet.org] By comparison, the US's GDP over the
>>same time period only increased 3.7% anually
>>[bls.gov], or 37%.
>Sorry, when you can't do arithmetic, nobody takes
>you seriously.
Too bad, because his point is still valid. A 3.7% annual increase equates to 43.8% over a 10-year period, not 37%. But either value is still FAR below the 571% growth in CEO pay.
One simple rule for its versus it's
I think what the **AAs would really be afraid of is people discovering that their public library has tons of good books that are free for you to read.