Michael Jordan just became the richest athlete in history with a net worth around $3.8 billion. Most of it didn’t come from his NBA salary (which was just $90M over 15 seasons), but from the Air Jordan brand, endorsement deals, and selling his Charlotte Hornets stake for $3B in 2023.
But here’s the wild part: if he split $3.8B evenly across all 342M Americans, each person gets only $11.11. Not even a full meal at Chipotle.
If you only count adults (305M people)? You’re bumped up to $12.45 each. Still barely enough to super-size your fries.
The real lesson: one person’s billions sounds massive until you realize how many people live in America. Even generational wealth gets diluted real quick when divided by 300+ million people. This is why wealth concentration is such a wild phenomenon.
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What If MJ Gave Away His $3.8B Fortune to Every American?
Michael Jordan just became the richest athlete in history with a net worth around $3.8 billion. Most of it didn’t come from his NBA salary (which was just $90M over 15 seasons), but from the Air Jordan brand, endorsement deals, and selling his Charlotte Hornets stake for $3B in 2023.
But here’s the wild part: if he split $3.8B evenly across all 342M Americans, each person gets only $11.11. Not even a full meal at Chipotle.
If you only count adults (305M people)? You’re bumped up to $12.45 each. Still barely enough to super-size your fries.
The real lesson: one person’s billions sounds massive until you realize how many people live in America. Even generational wealth gets diluted real quick when divided by 300+ million people. This is why wealth concentration is such a wild phenomenon.