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Subject: Re: are the best programmers getting rich (as they deserve)

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 07:28:24 12/13/05

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On December 12, 2005 at 23:48:30, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>$1,000,000 in the bank is not "rich" - at best it is comfortable.  Assuming 10%
>return per year (an optimistic assumption), that's only $100,000 a year without
>touching the capital.  Comfortable, mabye... but hardly "rich".

Really?  Depends a lot on where you are living, I suppose.  In my eyes, having
$1,000,000 in the bank is not just being rich, but *copiously* rich.  I don't
think I've ever met anybody who had half that amount of money.  Even $100,000
in the bank would qualify as "rich", in my opinion.

Of course, I am living in what most Americans would describe as a socialist
country, and we don't have a lot of really rich (nor really poor) people.

Tord



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