It looks like its in relation to this article: http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/05/luxury/expensive-being-rich/index.html
Thank you, Nykki, although the article is sadly extremely thin on information. Also, I think some of the figures are way off. For example, they seem to be listing just employees, but not the cost of ownership of those things. Further, I don't think those figures are very accurate. In the case of the aircraft, it's
way off. $300,000 for a pilot? Not even international jumbo jet pilots make that much!!
No, if you look at
links like this one, hosted by an actual aircraft manufacturer you'll see that a private plane pilot should run you more like $65,000/year. That's usually a pretty sweetheart deal, since they get to fly for a specific customer and as you see from the link, it could mean working about 200-400 flight hours a year, which is a lot less than the 600-1000 flight hours that commercial pilots often do per year. I'm sure your schedule is a lot more irregular as a personal aircraft pilot, but still.
Either way, it's an absurd article from top to bottom and I don't even think those figures are accurate for any of those jobs. They don't seem to line up with what I am finding online for a lot of this stuff. Lastly, to be spending all the money they're talking about is more like the top 0.1% or 0.01%. According to
this article from 2014, to reach the top 1% of income earners requires an income of $521,000/year. Clearly if you're making $500k/year, you're not spending $1.1 million on staff alone, not even counting the homes, boats, and airplanes implied by that staff.
Either way, useless article is both useless and frustrating. It seems to serve little purpose other than to stir up hatred and loathing among the population towards a bogeyman they claim is the source of all the world's problems. Still, thank you Nykki for finding the source article that went with it.
