Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? If so, then you may not be earning up to your full potential. You should be raking it in like Richard Fuld, the longtime chief of Lehman Brothers. He took home nearly half-a-billion dollars in total compensation between 1993 and 2007.
Last year, Mr. Fuld earned about $45 million, according to the calculations of Equilar, an executive pay research company. That amounts to roughly $17,000 an hour to obliterate a firm.
This is a reality that current television programming does not reflect.
Some other things you don’t see from Reality TV are a reflection of these facts:
The world's 225 richest individuals (of whom 60 are Americans with total assets of $311 billion) have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion - equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the entire world's population.
The richest one-fifth of the world's people consumes 86 percent of all goods and services, while the poorest one-fifth consumes just 1.3 percent. The richest one-fifth consumes 45 percent of all meat and fish, 58 percent of all energy used, and 84 percent of all paper, has 74 percent of all telephone lines and owns 87 percent of all vehicles.
Of the 4.4 billion people in the developing countries, nearly three-fifths lack access to safe sewers, one-third have no access to clean water, one-quarter do not have adequate housing, and one-fifth have no access to modern health services of any kind. (While one-sixth of Americans have no health insurance or medicare/Medicaid, many of them do have access to some health care via free health care clinics and immunizations.)
The combined personal income of the 120 million Japanese people is equal to the combined personal income of the roughly 3.2 billion citizens of the 62 poorest nations, significantly more than half of the world population. (Note this is income – not wealth, which would include inherited assets. Income is generally well less than total wealth for the richest people on earth.)
The top 1% of Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 90%.
Looking at some of the top paid CEOs, some 200 of them working at 198 public companies had revenues (income, stock options, etc.) of $6.3 billion last year. That’s an average of $31.5 million for each CEO.
The average CEO is paid 344 times as much as the average U.S.
The minimum wage would be over $23 per hour if it had gone up by the same percentage that CEOs income went up from 1990 to 2005. In 2005 the minimum wage was $5.15 per hour.
To correct for this deficiency in Television programming, I propose the following Reality TV shows be created and shown, preferably on the Fox Network, but if needed we can create our own network and offer round the clock programming by filling in the gaps with older shows like Dallas , Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and the Beverly
Bored But Hot and Horny Housewives of the Fortune 500 CEOs. (Well at least some of them are.)
Using satellite spy technology, spycams, and hidden microphones, we will show the daily lives of these housewives, their friends, and their enemies. And believe me, many of these people like their enemies more than they like their friends.
Punk’d CEO
We will get Ashton Kutcher to update his show Punk’d to punk CEOS. Stuff like having them go online and find all of their money is gone, or IRS investigators who come to the house for an unscheduled audit. Or we take over their computer. They think they are online and they discover that the market just tanked by 4,000 points. We will have paramedics and an ambulance standing by.
Lifestyles of the Rich, Unknown, and Secluded.
Kind of Like the old show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, but with more dirt because these are the people who don’t really want you to know how rich they are, how they got that way, or what they do with their money. They don’t even want you to know where they live, where they go, or who they know.
Tracking My Swiss Bank Account
A great idea but I don’t have any idea yet on how we are going to accomplish this. The idea is to show the movement of funds in and out of these accounts, where the money came from and where it is going.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-swiss13-2009oct13,0,3669891.story
Parties of the Stinking Rich and Unknown.
These are the people who hold million dollar parties for turning 60. They party in New York and Dubai
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253030,00.html
Tracking the Lottery Winners.
How they won it and how they invested it or lost it all. There is actually one $3 million lottery winner who is sixteen in Britain
http://news.aol.com/article/teenage-lottery-winner-callie-rogers/648281.
My Gated Community
A show dedicated to the rules you must adhere to if you want to live in a gated community and its effect on people. Inspired by the true story, as shown on Showtime’s “Bullshit”, of a man who couldn’t keep the grass from dying on his front lawn (the neighborhood association demanded a specific type of grass that required a lot of sun and his house was in a shaded area with sandy soil) and how he was actually thrown in jail by a judge for not taking care of his grass.
Spycam on Vacationers in Dubai
Opulence and decadence run totally amok.
http://www.vacationindubai.com/Pages/burj_al_arab_luxury_hotel_dubai.htm
The Wolf of Wall Street (making the book into a TV Series) soon to be a movie directed by Martin Scorsese
The recent book by a crooked Wall Street investor, now in jail, and his crazy lifestyle.
http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Wall-Street-Jordan-Belfort/dp/0553805460
My Day Off (in which we use spycams to follow around the rich, the stinking rich, black marketeers, drug lords, and others on their days off)
For balance and so we can see how the other 95% lives, I propose the following Reality TV shows:
Lifestyles of the Homeless
We will follow them around, one on one, both those in shelters and those not.
Central High, L.A.
Documenting what goes on in inner city high schools in the U.S.
We will show you who ends up here, how long they have to wait, and the care they get.
Cabrini-Green Daily
Documenting life in a major housing project in Chicago Chicago
A small town of less than 1,000 people in Alabama close to the border with Mississippi
The very rich live right next door to the very poor in this oil town. This city has one of the highest rates of poverty, but the official unemployment rate is low and the city is often characterized as one of the best places to retire.
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