Let’s have some fun! Listener Buzz sent me this story concerning the richest man in the world Jeff Bezos. Now the story doesn’t just give his one big number net worth, no, this piece breaks down his money to the second. Please keep in mind that these figures were calculated using Jeff’s 2017 and 2018 annual earnings so they are certainly higher now and the real reason they were rolled out was because he was divorcing his wife MacKenzie. A couple years ago Bezos’ net worth was around 137 billion. Here’s where the fun begins; that 137 billion number breaks down to 6.5 billion a month, 1.5 billion a week, 215 million a day, 9 million an hour, 149 thousand a minute, or 2500 a second! The numbers have been rounded off, no big.

Back in the ’70’s I had a job as a laborer in the construction industry, it paid $6.50 an hour and believe it or not that was considered a decent amount of money back then.

You know what’s even better than $6.50 an hour? Nine million an hour!! And to think 25 years ago I’m sure a lot of retailers paid Jeff and his wife no mind when they were initially selling used books out of their garage. Oops. Adding insult to retail injury as he eats bricks and mortar for breakfast Mr. B has decided to spit some of the bricks and mortar out. That’s right, he is now taking some vacant Sears space and putting in Amazon stores. Talk about pissing on the grave! Oh that reminds me I was in a band in high school and I bought my first amp from Sears, it was a Silvertone. I bought it with the money I earned from working at a drug store for $2.75 and hour. You know what’s better than $2.75 an hour….9 million dollars an hour!!

Gunga, galunga
Garry