WHAT PEOPLE EARN (Part 3) — by Steve Nadis
It’s the time of year for me to get depressed. Not only do I owe taxes and estimated tax payments by tomorrow, it’s also the time of year that I get to read PARADE Magazine and find out how much more people earn than I do. Thirty-year-old Chad Hurley, the cofounder of YouTube, earned as much in one hour as I did in a whole year. Pablo Picasso earned almost exactly as much as Hurley and he hardly needs the money, having been dead for nearly 35 years. I was even bested by a 27-year-old “bronc rider” in South Dakota who pulled in $237,600 and I don’t even know what a bronc rider does. On the plus side, I did come out ahead of a comedian in Boise, Idaho but that’s hardly a fair fight given that Boise has long been known as a tough town on the comedy circuit. So that was my 2006 in a nutshell–even a dead guy made as much in an hour as I managed to scrape together in a long year of hard work and sleepless nights.
Posted by in 16:37:26
It gets worse, Snake. The dead guy not only made more money than you. He also slept with more people (probably), drank more wine (I hope), and ate better food. (While he was alive, of course.)
But don’t take it too hard. HE never had a blog, after all.
Sounds like you’re saying I lost 4-1. In other words, I WAS NOT SHUT OUT, which is not bad when you’re going up against a man that many consider to be the greatest artist of all time. Thank you Gatemouth! You just made my day.
I like a man who can see the glass as 1/5 full instead of 4/5 empty. It fits with my notion that God’s greatest gift to mankind is delusion.
Why thank you, Gatemouth. In the spirit of what you just said, I’m going to take that as a compliment.