When we wrote the show, “How Jeff Bezos Became the Richest Man in The World” he
was worth a staggering $143,810,231,459.23.
His wealth fluctuates a lot, but some people keep up with it, and one source tells us right
now he is worth $158.39 billion.
We can’t be too sure how accurate these figures are, and if he made around 15 billion
in a few weeks we’d be surprised.
We are also told that his divorce is going to make a rather large dent in his wealth
and he may have to settle for a few spots down on the world’s richest people list.
What we can say for sure is that he is certainly not average in this respect, but how average
is he in other respects?
Mr. Bezos was born on January 12, 1964.
That makes him 55-years old.
How many other folks in the USA are around his age?
Statistica tells us that another 10.7 percent of people in the entire country are male and
aged 55 to 59.
As we’ve said in other shows about 49.5 percent of Americans in total are male.
As for being born in January, astrologically he fits the Capricorn personality quite well
as they are supposed to be hardworking and very ambitious.
As for that date, we can’t find how many people were born then back in Jeff’s day,
but if you look at data from 1994-2014 the most common day to be born was September 9th.
Yep, people are making babies in winter but not having them as much.
Between those years 10,934 people were born on Jeff’s birthday, which was ranked 248th
for the most common birthday.
From what we can see, there are not that many January babes in the USA on the whole, with
July, August and September being the most common months to have kids.
So, Mr. Bezos, you don’t have a common birthday and so are not average.
We know he is white, so he joins another 72 percent of white Americans.
But what about his ancestry?
Ok, so we did a bit of spying and found his family tree.
We know his father’s side was the Jorgensen family, but his mother’s side were called
the Gise family.
We don’t actually know where they come from, but if we look at the name Jorgensen it could
be Danish, Norwegian or north German.
Gise is likely English.
If he is German-American that puts him in one of the biggest ancestry groups.
It’s thought around 46.4 million Americans share that heritage.
As for English Americans we are told about 24.8 million Americans will claim this, but
the problem here is many Americans who just say they are American are often English American.
It’s probably the biggest group of white Americans.
There are a few Norwegians, too, but not many Danes.
What we can say, though, is it is likely that Jeff joins some big ancestry groups.
We’d ask him in question about his ancestors, but he’s not picking up the phone right
now.
You might know that his mother had him when she was just 17, and that as you can guess
is on the young side.
But looking at statistics, his mother wasn’t that young when he was born.
Those stats tell us that these days most women have babies from 19-33, but in 1980 women
were having kids much younger on average.
His young mother got married, but that didn’t last long.
We are told that 42 to 45 percent of American marriages end with divorce, so Jeff doesn’t
exactly come from an unusual family.
She got married again, and we are told that 36.8 percent of single mothers do just that
so he was not too unusual in that respect.
As you know, Jeff was a whizz with computers from a young age and very good at creating
gadgets.
He graduated with flying colors from school and from university.
That doesn’t make him that unusual, however, because around 83 percent of Americans graduate
high school.
But much fewer graduate university, and that number is said to be around 33.4 percent of
people according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The thing is, Jeff graduated from an Ivy Leaguer University.
It’s said that in 2018 there were 280,000 applications for these schools, but if you
look at acceptance rates they are between around 5 and 10.5 percent depending on the
school.
This makes him decidedly not average, but not as unusual as the student reported in
the Baltimore Sun in 2018 that got accepted to all eight Ivy League schools.
Suffice it to say, Mr. Bezos was a book-smart kid.
So, now he’s a grown man.
What does he look like?
Well, it’s said he is 173cm tall, or five feet eight inches.
This makes him a bit of a small fry, as the average height for a man in the USA is 176.1cm
or five feet nine.
His current weight is about 75kg (165 pounds), which makes him quite the proportionate fella.
As you know, the USA doesn’t do proportions very well, so in terms of average weight he
is small.
The average weight for a man in the USA if he is a non-Hispanic white is more like 90.7
kilos (200 pounds).
That seems like quite a lot, but we checked a couple of sources and indeed 90 kilos is
the average.
Jeff is certainly a lightweight, but still, he looks like he is in good shape.
One of the things that might shave off a gram or two is hair, and Jeff doesn’t have any
of that stuff.
Well, around 80 percent of men his age are what you might call balding, they have thinner
hair.
Let’s be honest, if you have your full mane at 55 you are unusual.
But how many men have that shiny egghead?
We are told that around 25 percent of men will have male pattern baldness, meaning they
might have those bits on the side but up on top the lawn has been replaced by asphalt.
He kept some hair when starting Amazon, but there was only a tuft.
He looks much better now that he’s gone full throttle with the Remington.
Before we get into money matters, let’s talk about Jeff and his sexuality.
We know he is straight, and so he joins most other Americans.
In fact, not as many people as you might think identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Gallop in 2015 said these folks only number around 3.8 percent of Americans, so Jeff is
just as average as most other Americans.
But one thing we do know about Mr. Bezos is that he has had an affair.
The Institute for Family Studies tells us that in the USA around 25 percent of men admit
to having relations with another while married when they are in middle age.
It was around 15 percent for women.
We can say that Jeff’s slightly not average here.
But we are also told that Mr. B sent pictures of his naked body to another women via video.
In fact, it’s said a tabloid newspaper got hold of that content and tried to blackmail
Bezos, but he took it on the chin.
Hey, he is the richest man in the world, he doesn’t care if his Amazonian snake makes
it to the front pages of some terrible rag.
But how many men do these kinds of things; are many guys in the “here’s a picture
of my phallus” club?
Hmm, we just can’t find a number, but Psychology Today tells us it’s not that uncommon at
all.
It says there hasn’t been much research into this, but as men often perceive women
as wanting the same as them (men we are told like to see women’s parts in photos) then
they think the women will want the same.
That turns out not always to be the case.
Men we are told in general get off on exhibitionism more than women, they get a kick out of it.
So Mr. Bezos, all we can say is join the club.
But what about his massive piles of cash.
We told you how much he has, but when did he start having it?
Before that we should tell you as we have in other shows, that if you have a college
degree on average you’ll be getting paid around $50,000 a year.
The median net worth in the USA is more like $44,900 per adult, while CNBC reported in
2018 that the median American household has $4,830 in a savings account.
30 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 saved.
Well, we are told that Bezos was a late starter because he didn’t make his first million
until he was 33.
But he was certainly good once he got out of the blocks because he was a billionaire
just two years later.
In fact, Forbes says in 1997 he became a millionaire and in 1999 he was listed as having just over
10 billion.
Let’s now also remember that Jeff got his start in the working world as a McDonald’s
staff member.
Yep, he was a burger and fries man a long time before he started filming his junk and
getting people to sell theirs on his website.
He is not even average, though, because it’s said that one in eight Americans will work
in McDonalds in their lifetime.
Some people are skeptical about this number, but it’s nonetheless been cited about 100
million times.
Anyway, so you are eking out a living, hoping one day to get out of the 30 percent at the
bottom and save more than 1,000 dollars.
We’ll just rub some salt in your wounds now and tell you that Jeff Bezos earns 8.9
million dollars an hour, a bit better than the average McDonalds cheese slice placer
who gets around 8 bucks an hour.
He gets around two and a half thousand dollars for every second that goes by, so by the time
you have said, “Oh my God, I don’t believe it”, he’s made around 10,000 dollars.
Forbes says there are around 540 billionaires in the USA and we know that Jeff these days
is making about 1.5 billion every week.
So, if you earn a decent crust and get your 50,000 a year ‘cos you have that degree,
and let’s say you earn that a year from the age of 20 to 65, you will have earned
a total of 2,250,000 in your entire lifetime.
You’ve had a triple bypass, two divorces over working late, several DUIs after fighting
with your psychopathic bosses, and to top it all off you didn’t even like your job.
You only did it so you could holiday once every three years in Fort Lauderdale and run
that temperamental Honda.
We should tell you then, that Mr. B makes what you did in a lifetime in approximately
15 minutes.
That’s less time than your boss gives you to have a coffee in the morning, and Jeff
gets free Pina Coladas when he goes to Florida.
We will leave it there.
How do you think you compare to Jeff Bezos?
Tell us in the comments.
Also, be sure to check out our other video What If Apple Was A Country.
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