FidelCashflow
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I was half kidding and did say mean rather than median. I doubt it's true but here are some interesting facts.. In the 2007 Forbes 400, 8 out of the 11 wealthiest Americans did not acquire their wealth through a college degree. They either dropped out like Gates or never went like Kerkorian. Some have college degrees but inherited the money from someone who didn't have a college degree. If you look at the top 25 of that list, those without a college degree are worth more as a group than the graduates. Again, if your high school dropout grandfather left you 10,000,000,000 and you graduated college, congratulations but that fortune was made by a dropout. Athletes make chump change in comparison to the Forbes list but they are well known. Of the top 10 earning athletes in 2007, only Mickelson has a college degree. I'd say it's the same pattern for just about celebrity who shapes our pop culture which is more and more THE culture. Historically, it's no contest. None of them had a college degree. Rockefeller tops the all time list at 192B (2007 $) followed in order Vanderbilt 143 Astor 116 Girard 83 Carnegie 75 Stewart 70 Weyerhaeuser 68 Gould 67 and on and on.
On average (mean), college dropouts are richer than college graduates. So I suppose they are busy owning the world you live in.
I was half kidding
I'm sure I don't have to tell you your taking some pretty serious outliers in one case and cherry-picking your sample in the other. The richest in America didn't derive their wealth from their education or lack thereof, they did it through some pretty random factors, and often through simply being in the right place at the right time either in the hereditary sense or in business. In regards to your comment on athletes, I would counter that we should look at the top 10 hedge fund managers (who make far more than athletes) and see how many of them have college degrees. I'm sure if we looked at the other end of the spectrum (the poorest Americans) the vast, vast majority of them don't have college degrees. So there's that.
You would kill your children? Wow...
you should try it - the best gyms are not wear accountants hang out and do pilates, its where garbagmen hang out and push serious metal around.And no, I don't go to gyms or where blue collar people hang out, hence the question.
here is part of the problem - you went to universtiy, and yet you are supprised at how many various options for blue collar work there are? who makes food? who makes cars? who move things around? who fixes things? this never dawned on you?Right. I think I'm just a little surprised at the multitude of these jobs.
My uncle has a saying that he got from an MD somewhere... The A students go in to research, the B students work for the A students, and the A students work for the C students. He's proud to have been a C student.
I've read that about 30% of Americans have a college education. What do the remaining 70% without a college education do as jobs?