@johanna | June 8, 2012 at 11:26 am
You are so full of it johanna. Millions of people owe there job which allows them to make a living to the rich. Your narrow, blinkered socialist vision will be the ruin of us all due to your greed and envy.
On top of that:
“”While the exact number is not known, it is reasonable to assume that there were approximately 10,000 Microsoft millionaires created by the year 2000,” said Richard S. Conway Jr., a Seattle economist whom Microsoft hired to study its impact on Washington State. “The wealth that has come to this area is staggering.” ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/business/yourmoney/29millionaire.html?pagewanted=all
“To put that in perspective, Apple now has 60,400 employees. 36,000 of those work in the retail segment; we can assume they don’t get options or RSUs. So excluding retail, Apple has about 24,400 employees. Let’s double that number, to include all the employees who have left over the years — call it 50,000 in all. $172 billion divided by 50,000 employees is $3.4 million per employee.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/19/how-much-do-apple-employees-earn/
n the 1990s, we loved to tally up the number of Microsoft millionaires. Now, it’s Google’s turn. The New York Times cites estimates that there are 1,000 Google employees whose stock grants and options are worth more than $5 million. So there are more than 1,000 Google millionaires, including Google’s former masseuse, Bonnie Brown.
http://techcrunch.com/2007/11/12/counting-the-google-millionaires/
Status update: I’m rich! Facebook flotation to create 1,000 millionaires among company’s rank and file