Friday, September 23, 2016

Aristotle would be eating a lot of ramen if he were alive today. And not the boutique restaurant kind.



Forbes Magazine caters to the wealthy, the kinda wealthy, and the really bored people in a doctor's office who can't bear the idea of reading another Reader's Digest.

Which explains why Forbes would have an article detailing the college majors least and most likely to have millionaires as an alumnus. Turns out Kierkegaard would be panhandling if he was alive today.

Researches at WealthInsight analyzed data on over 100,000 high net worth individuals with assets of $1 million or more--and philosophy majors made up the least of them.

The list:

1.  MBA (12.1%)
2.  Engineering (10.7%)
3.  Economics (8.2%)
4.  Business studies/business administration (5.9%)
5.  Law (4.7%)
6.  Accountancy (2.9%)
7.  Finance (2.1%)
8.  Management (2.0%)
9.  Commerce (1.9%)
10.  Computer science (1.9%)
11.  Politics (1.3%)
12.  Mathematics (1.1%)
13.  Medicine (1.0%)
14.  Physics (0.9%)
15.  Chemistry (0.9%)
16.  History (0.8%)
17.  Marketing (0.7%)
18.  Biology (0.6%)
19.  Psychology (0.6%)
20.  Philosophy (0.6%)

Consider me stunned that those in the world of business, finance, commerce, accountancy, economics--everything that makes a worldwide business flourish and make the affluent richer--somehow dominate the top ten and would produce the most millionaires. Goodness! You might think there was some sort of incestuous relationship between it all!

You might ask where English majors are on this list. The cynic in you might suggest not oven 0.6% of them are millionaires. Your inner Negative Nancy might suggest writers are starving artists because, well, they are starving. The pessimist in your soul would suggest English majors must be a sad lot.

And you'd be right. But we're not sad. Just broke.



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