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Did i read that right? 120mils a year?!!!
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...
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Star jugglers do not make a killing, unfortunately. A man with a not unreasonable claim to "best juggler in the world" gave it up and became a concrete contractor. Salaries at Cirque start at $50k.
Penn Jilette is the biggest star in juggling that I know of. He seems to make pretty good money in so far as one can infer these things.
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Star *anything" is a path to millions. Star athletes and musicians are obvious examples, but even star jugglers or puppeteers probably make a killing. Very misleading article
Star jugglers do not make a killing, unfortunately. A man with a not unreasonable claim to "best juggler in the world" gave it up and became a concrete contractor. Salaries at Cirque start at $50k.
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The whole thread is specifically about lottery winners. This is an example of such a thing happening due to juggling skill. It refutes the idea there are no such examples that result from juggling skill.
Only in the sense that Paul Graham talks about successful startups "doing everything right and winning the lottery." There is a certain amount of luck in anything, but being a statistical outlier for income isn't the same as "winning the lottery," which is basically random chance. And the reason it matters is because earned income encourages people to develop useful skills that the world desires (so as to presumably…
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Very interesting how affluent people still rent. I noticed the same in LA in a high end building. What is the reason? Having more money to invest in different asset classes instead of the biggest chunk being in real estate?
Freedom to move, don't want to deal with burdens of ownership, better ROI to rent, etc.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...
Saying he earned $120 MM a year when really that was a payout after multiple years of hitting agreed upon milestones - that's sort of like saying everybody makes millions a year at a company that just IPOed. He obviously made a lot of money, but you're exaggerating by almost an order of magnitude.
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Saying he earned $120 MM a year when really that was a payout after multiple years of hitting agreed upon milestones - that's sort of like saying everybody makes millions a year at a company that just IPOed. He obviously made a lot of money, but you're exaggerating by almost an order of magnitude.
Whatever you do don't look up what Uber offered him to leave waymo...
Also he's likely going to end up in jail because of what happened with that Uber fiasco.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-27/ex-google-...
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Star jugglers do not make a killing, unfortunately. A man with a not unreasonable claim to "best juggler in the world" gave it up and became a concrete contractor. Salaries at Cirque start at $50k.
In fairness, I suspect it depends on what you're juggling. I could envision someone juggling management of an electric car company and a space exploration technologies company making bank.