You don't get rich by working hard, not in America anyway

[mojowork_n]

22. Definitely, an object with it's own measurable gravity

I once saw a graphic that had annual incomes plotted out to
the size of objects in the solar system. Average annual income
was mapped to tiny, tiny moons or big rocks in the asteroid belt.

In the graphic those were just small, circular globes. but really,
really big annual incomes looked more like gas giants. So big that
if you drew them full size you'd barely even see the small moons.
So in the graphic that income level was only shown as a quarter-
wedge, the lower arc (90 degrees) of a much bigger circular object.

Another way to say or show that is to take the example of Sheldon
Adelson, the casino zillionaire who jump-started Gingrich's run in the
Republican primary with an 11 million dollar "gift," when it looked like
the Newt was going to have to drop out...

The Sheldon:



For Adelson, with an annual income of 7 Billion bucks, that 11 million
works out to less than four hours of his normal income rate. Adelson
gets 3.3 million dollars an hour. For someone making the national
median income, around 40K, it's like you or I could temporarily
"own" a presidential candidate*** with a contribution of 50 bucks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/newt-gingrich-sheldon-adelson-income_n_1263249.html

*** ....Well, maybe "own" isn't the right word, but to get that presidential
candidate to say things he hadn't agreed with formerly, like "the
Palestinians aren't a nation."