Somebody by the name of Mahadev Desai
sent this from Ahmedabad on the wealth or rather richness of Bill Gates.
My poem is added below the write up.
Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND,
that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
If he drops a thousand dollar,
he won’t even bother to pick it up
because the 4 seconds he picks it,
he would’ve already earned it back.
The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion,
if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself;
he will finish it in less then 10 years.
He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth
but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US.
If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million,
he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
If Bill Gates was a country,
he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes,
you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.
But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years,
and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
Bill Gates is 40 this year.
If we assume that he will live for another 35 years,
he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to
finish all his money before he can go to heaven.
Last but not the least: If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim
US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows,
Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years!!!!!!! !!!!
If I were to summarize this account of good old Bill
With so much wealth, he can never, be ‘over the hill’
The fact that he is no run of the mill
Is not only proven by his exceptional skill
Instead of choosing to will (to his descendants)
Mankind’s agony he has chosen to mitigate if not kill (Foundation)
As the world’s two richest men get together, time stands still
Vis-a-vis their gesture, their other achievements amount to nil
The trend they have set is the real cause for thrill
It can never be expressed in words no matter how many pages I fill
A place in history is secure for Bill Gates
Wonder how his achievements it rates
It won’t be restricted to boring dates
In a world of trivial jealousies and pet hates
He has tried to ensure that the rich and poor are mates.
Hope the memory of his grand gesture never abates
Hope he is emulated among countries by the United states