I use ol' Jeff Bezos as an example when talking about "lies, damned lies, and statistics" in class. A couple of years ago it was reported that Jeff made $57 billion in a single year. I point out that his income alone increased the average American income by more than $100! What did you spend your share of that $100 on, I ask the students.
But of course the students didn't get $100 to spend. Jeff got all the $100's. That's why average is not a good measure of central tendency when you have a few outliers at the extreme. Average income (or average household income) doesn't tell us how people are doing.
On the other hand, Jeff's windfall didn't increase the median American income by a single cent. It usually takes a pretty broad economic benefit to raise median income. If you want to know how people in general are doing, choose the median.
That's amazingly clear, Rick.
I wish I was in a place where I had even 4 million dollars of amazon stock, much less 4 billion!
Billions really are immoral. Hil gave me this amazing bit on FB:
The example that I like best for that is that, if you earned $10,000 an hour, working eight hours a day, 365 days a year, and you'd started earning this money when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and you never spent any of it, you'd be almost a billionaire by now, but not quite.
May your birthday be more lovely to you and less stressful, -t!
I don't get any NO People Alone time at all any more. Or sometimes I manage a few hours.
What I really really want is a few nights, or hell just one night of just me and Matthew without his mom. When we go on vacation that is the only time we have like that. Sometimes she's gone for a few hours but that is it.
I miss truly alone no people time.
I'm up to 9 slides and I think I've run out of things to say. Hm. I guess I can go into more detail on a couple of things...
Had lunch at Denny's to take advantage of their free birthday meal. Got a Diet Coke to go with it and that cost $3.95! Now I know.
Aside from the obscene wealth inequity of being a billionaire, I think having money at that level causes more problems than it's worth on an individual level. For instance, while at my current income I can't travel as much as I'd like or quite afford to own my ideal home, I also don't have to worry about being kidnapped or that dates, friends, and relatives don't genuinely like me and are only interested in my money. I'll happily take that trade-off.
I heard a story on the radio sometime in the last month about Jeff Bezos phone being hacked by Saudi Arabia or something and at one point the reporter said something about Bezos and Crown Prince what's-his-name communicating with each other, of course, being fellow world leaders and all and I didn't know what part of that to be more offended and boggled by. It's all a big mess!
askye, I think you and Matthew need a standing Date Night arrangement. Is his Mom OK to stay home by herself?
Making time for Matthew to just spend with his Mom would also be a good thing, too, I bet. And does she like anything that you could do with/for her, like going to a Bingo Night or to thrift stores. (My aunt liked that, because nobody else on her side of the family liked just wandering through aisles looking at cheap possibilities.)
I bet Matt would like Date Night, especially if you could rotate it with some sports-type events he'd like, movies you'd like, stuff you'd like together.
Answer is in—bone scan showed plenty of inflammation, in the spot that was hurting as well as one other. We discussed—there's no obvious stress fracture or anything but removing the plate is pretty easy. Since the one isn't hurting we will probably leave it alone, but have outpatient surgery and get the other plate taken out and hope that helps. Yay! I feel glad I pushed for bone scan even though the X-ray looked fine! (Not that the doctor seemed like he doubted me—I like this guy much better—but I was worried I was being a hypochondriac)
