[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Hmmmm and they say the U.S. is falling behind in math and science.

Hm. Yeah. That was an epic blunder. There are not 40 hours in one day. That's a work week.

(I actually calculated 40 hours * 21 days * $1000 = $840.000.)

OK, the rest is somewhat off-topic.

Spoiler:

Still, $168K is three times as much per month as a salary considered to be a very nice gross salary per year in the Netherlands, assuming you have a normal job. Such a lawyer earns a salary of about €1.45 million, a year, which is about 9-10 times as much as our prime minister.

To be honest, I think salaries like those (and the ones going to movie stars, soccer players, and so on, which are even more out of proportion) are the entire problem in this world. (I'm not even talking about things like €25 million golden handshakes and €50 million pension plans...) Too few people have too much of the money.

Same goes for companies as well. I think it's ridiculous that companies such as Apple and Microsoft have cash reserves big enough to pay the national debt of some of the smaller countries in this world, and still keep a nice amount of cash handy.