{"id":1990,"date":"2015-01-04T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2015-01-04T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:46:09","slug":"jocks-versus-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Jocks Versus Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is It Better To Be a Jock (Michael Jordan) or a Nerd (Bill Gates)?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Jordan having &#8220;retired,&#8221; with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.<\/li>\n<li>If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.<\/li>\n<li>If he goes to see a movie, it&#8217;ll cost him $7.00, but he&#8217;ll make $18,550 while he&#8217;s there.<\/li>\n<li>If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he&#8217;ll make $618 while boiling it.<\/li>\n<li>He makes $7,415\/hr more than minimum wage.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;ll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.<\/li>\n<li>If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.<\/li>\n<li>If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;ll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.<\/li>\n<li>Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.<\/li>\n<li>If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you&#8217;d be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;ll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.<\/li>\n<li>While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he&#8217;ll pull in about $5600.<\/li>\n<li>This year, he&#8217;ll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 450 years, he&#8217;ll still have less than Bill Gates has today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Game over. Nerd wins!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is It Better To Be a Jock (Michael Jordan) or a Nerd (Bill Gates)? Michael Jordan having &#8220;retired,&#8221; with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not. If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head. If he goes to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[235,874,1003,1059],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-bill-gates","tag-jock","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}