"A flat million dollars a year..."

[gmoney]

listening to the audiobook of Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" and he's describing a fabulously rich executive managing the affairs of the single richest person, sort of Bill Gates plus Warren Buffett, in a time far in the future, and Vonnegut quaintly describes his outlandish salary as "a flat million dollars a year, plus benefits and stock options..."

I'd wager there are at least 100 people at Goldman Sachs getting more than that each year... 1000 people maybe? I think that's now about the minimum salary in major league sports, no?

Interesting book so far Kurt, but you woefully underestimated wealth disparity and wage inflation among the upper crust.

[MilesColtrane]

1. I imagine that Vonnegut's ghost would let the reader adjust for inflation.

How did he know that people were still going to be reading his book fifty years later?

That outlandish salary would be over $7 million a year now.

While that's not just stoopid money, it is pretty damned good.