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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-12-2006, 12:09 PM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
how about:
assets - (liabilities + home equity + taxes) > $1M
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-12-2006, 06:19 PM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
I think "a millionaire” in the sense I knew it when I graduated from high school in 1958 would amount to at least $8-10 million today. Taxes were higher then; but the dollar has lost at least 90% of its value since then, especially when you are talking about high class stuff like waterfront property, planes, yachts, etc. A very nice house in very good neighborhoods might have been $75,000. A really nice house indeed.
Today's young guys that "retire" from Microsoft with $4 or 5 million are peckerwoods compared to the brewery owners, beer distributors, etc than I caddied for as a kid. They also don't have near as much fun as the prior generation of millionaires. Divorce didn't hang over those 50s guys' heads like the Sword of Damocles. Their wives knew that they couldn't get **** in a divorce, so they helped hubby spend his money and looked the other way when it was fun time for the boys. Maybe even helped themselves to a bit of discreet fun.
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-12-2006, 06:52 PM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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Really? There were only 22 millionaires in 1900? And 800+ Billionaires today. That's kinda surprising actually. We may actually have hit a new record for the gap between rich and poor; outdid the middle ages...
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-12-2006, 07:06 PM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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Really? There were only 22 millionaires in 1900? And 800+ Billionaires today. That's kinda surprising actually. We may actually have hit a new record for the gap between rich and poor; outdid the middle ages...
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Well, from the optimistic side, it also says something about upward social mobility. Look at that list of 800 billionaires. A surprising number are self-made. Gates, Buffet and Walton are three names that come to mind.
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 07:59 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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Really? There were only 22 millionaires in 1900? And 800+ Billionaires today. That's kinda surprising actually. We may actually have hit a new record for the gap between rich and poor; outdid the middle ages...
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22 billionaires.
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 09:26 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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22 billionaires.
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That's why I'm a stickler for details.* You almost made a $21,978,000,000 error because you didn't specify billionaire in your original post.*
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 09:57 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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22 billionaires.
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I am actually surprised with that large number unless it includes despots who owned large whole countries.
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 10:15 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
At this point we're lucky I wasnt talking about free agent running backs. Our angelic sleeper gave us 2 hours last night for some unknown reason.
He's snoozing peacefully now though. I wanna go in there and waah at him until he wakes up. Except that would sort of be counter productive.
Remember, thats 22 in the whole world. I imagine a few did own what amounts to whole countries...
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 10:27 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
9 out of 22 were Railroad barons, a couple of department store chain owners, an iron magnate, a fur trader, etc.
Interesting stuff:
They became billionaires by...
* inheritance, plus a stock market boom.
* persuading the government to do your enterprise a truly massive favor.
* being at the right place at the right time: creating an enterprise of truly enormous social utility--and thereafter both retaining the market power to turn a large chunk of that extra social utility into firm profits, and retaining a sufficient ownership share and access to capital markets to turn capitalized firm profits into an enormous fortune.
Characteristics of the billionaire circa 1900...substantial differences in how and where they got their money, with the exceptions of the large # of railroad guys; brutally ruthless; abilities to financially manage the windfalls they received from their machinations; and complete and total corruption.
A great deal of the billionaires owed their wallets to bribes lobbying politicians. As Collis Huntington said:" If you have to pay money to a politician to have the right thing done, is is only just and fair to do it.... If a politician has the power to do great evil and won't do right unless he is bribed to do it, I think... it is a man's duty to go up and bribe"
I'm sure we can all draw some analog's to a number of todays situations...
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 10:28 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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He's snoozing peacefully now though.* I wanna go in there and waah at him until he wakes up.* Except that would sort of be counter productive.
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-13-2006, 11:16 AM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
Oh I've got it already. I dressed him in a little hooded sweatshirt and then put one of his little stuffed animals into the hood on his back. He can see it out of the corner of his eye and whips his head around, upon which of course it 'runs away'. This is producing the same effect as a cat chasing its tail.
I'm amused. He's amused yet perplexed. Everyones happy.
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-14-2006, 01:43 PM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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22 billionaires.
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Ah, ok, that makes more sense than 22 millionaires. Now I'm surprised on the other end. From that perspective all of those 22 were probably a hell of a lot wealthier than Bill G and his 50 Billion in today's dollars...
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Re: What is a millionaire?
03-14-2006, 02:05 PM
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Re: What is a millionaire?
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From that perspective all of those 22 were probably a hell of a lot wealthier than Bill G and his 50 Billion in today's dollars...
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that's 22 total billionaires out of 1.5 billion world population circa 1900 compared to about 800 out of 6.5 billion population circa today. i'm not sure if that means they could buy more pie or if there was simply more pie to buy.
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