Coding and Rich People

Alrighty, I've been doing a little reading on coding. It is in high demand, but is difficult to learn. Base salary starts around $125K USD. Likely high stress. Let's do a little more fact finding:


What Is Coding? 15 Facts For Beginners

Dailytekk has a lot of good articles. Everything from newbies, kids, best programs, everything. I think I'll take a look, but that's likely as far as it will go.


Just nine of the world's richest people (men) have more combined wealth than the poorest 4 billion people. Here's a different perspective. The total world's population is 7 billion. The total world wealth is $241 trillion. So 1% of the population owns 46% of the wealth. The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 1% - or $1.7 trillion - of the wealth.

 

Do you have any idea how much money these people have? Bill, Warren and Jeff keep bouncing back and forth between 1st. Last week it was Jeff. LOL  This list has Jeff WAY ahead of Bill and Warren.

Regardless who has the most and the least, the folks are definitely set for life. Some of the them are philanthropists while others keep their money close to hand. What would you do with Jeff Bezos's $120 billion?

Billionaires Made So Much Money Last Year They Could End Extreme Poverty Seven Times. While they aren't doing that, many of them have made "The Giving Pledge". Extremely generous, given the fact they do not HAVE to give anything. Kinda makes you feel good about your fellow man. Or not. Whatever floats your boat.

Toodles!

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