Just in case you missed the December edition of the Time magazine, yours truly has been selected Person of the Year 2006. I am not kidding you. I got to be this Person because I blog, google, youTube my time away every day.
I am going to put my new found fame as Person of the Year on my resume so I can increase my chance of landing a job with The Firm where for 2006 the average employee, scratch that, on average, an employee got paid $622,000. I am not sure if this statistics average means anything.
Further readings:
The Bonus Army by Henry Blodget 12/20/2006
Goldman CEO's $53.3M Bonus Breaks Record by The Associated Press 12/20/2006
IMHO, Robert, you are the person of the Century, continue to Blog, Blog, Blog, I enjoy to read your Blog
ReplyDeleteI am not person of the Century. I am just another guy who writes an online diary or what some people or sometimes myself call a blog, just a fancy name in the Internet age.
ReplyDeleteI write to entertain myself mainly. If you or somebody finds some of my posts entertaining that's just great.
Thank you for the kind words.
I know how hard it is to write a blog regularly. The Internet has revolutionised information sharing. [Think about the advent of the technology of printing by the Chinese or Johann Gutenburg.] It is literally correct to say that almost all one wants to know is at their fingertips. I'd rather give the award to the people who have helped to build the Internet and all those diligent bloggers who share their thoughts with fellow global villagers.
ReplyDeleteI can't understand why Prof. Black enjoy writing without any moentary reward, may be the same as you can't understand why WP2006 spent his time in Yahoo Auction, I am now enjoying my 11 days X'mas holiday
ReplyDeleteLloyd Blankfein didn't need the hkd 400 millions paycheck. He made partner before the firm went public. He was a billionaire long time ago. Unlike the rest of us, a guy like him looks for job satisfaction and talks about contribution to mankind all the time. For me, I just wish to be the 'average' employee in the firm.
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I am sure he doesn't need it. Nobody needs it. The homeless guy around 5th Ave and 41 St doesn't need it either.
ReplyDeleteBut I think if anybody, he deserves it. At least Goldman is doing well incredibly well for 2006 and before.
The numbers are just for fun. On another note, there is this movie, based on true story, by Will Smith called "The Pursuit of Happyness" . I am not sure if I would see it but it seems very interesting.
I remember an ex-Goldman partner said in his farewell cocktail party that, "We all love money. That's why we are in this business." That is true. That is how capitalism works. The people at the top of the food chain get so much while the folks at the bottom get next to nothing. When I was in China, I saw a story on TV about an outbreak of hepatitis A in GuiZhou. The average annual income of a peasant family there is around rmb2300 and they certainly can't afford the rmb89 anti-hepatitis shot for their sons/daughters in the school whose cafeteria water pipe is just a foot from the sewage ditch. By the way, the cost of the shot is rmb 49 and the national cap for the shot is rmb90.
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The medical and health reform in China is in a messy imbroglio. Most people, not to mention the poor, can't afford decent medical care.
ReplyDeleteI remember a quarter of a century ago when I visited China, I could get reasonable medical care at an affordable price. For example, when I was caught in a bicycle accident or when I contracted a flu, I was well taken care of. I remember my cousin, who's much older than me, paid RMB20 cents for some flu medicine at a village clinic for me.
Nowadays, if a patient or his family do not come up with a sizable deposit, he/she is not even treated.
A friend told me her maid in Shenzhen got scalded by boiling water. The poor maid had to wait in a hospital for over an hour because the medical workers there told my friend to go buy a small plastic basin for her maid before they would proceed to wash her wound using it.
the medical report, like the political reform, never have a feasible solution
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