Today, I will discuss a topic which is not often discussed in my blog: that of the correlation of academic education and wealth. An ever-green question that begs discussing in our pragmatic society is often this: is a university degree necessary to become rich? Flipping through the many annual reports of listed companies, I have often, out of curiosity, done a quick calculation of how much the bosses of these companies earn and are worth. Well, my quick calculation shows that many of these bosses, of even small listed companies earn an average of $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 annually in salary and many of them are worth at least $100 million alone from the investments they have in their companies via shareholdings. Not many of these bosses have a university degree as I found out from these annual reports though some of them have a honorary Doctoral degree conferred on them ......