"You're an idiot" says the educated college student

The other day, a friend at work and I were talking about our college days, real estate, and he was telling me about a rental purchase that he recently made (his first one). He holds a very high position in the company, and is under immense pressure from the plant manager to get results at work, which results in him working a lot of hours, which greatly reduces the time he has to work on his rental property.

Anyway, we were talking about that, and we started reminiscing about college. Talking about roomates and such, and we started talking about the rental units that we stayed in then. Mine was a one room (not bedroom, one room) efficiency apartment with a small bathroom and a small kitchen attached. He described his first two years of terrible roomates, and he ended up in a similar apartment to mine his last two years.

He started telling me about his landlord - which he remembered as an uneducated (never went to college) idiot that was always giving him a hard time about noise, rent, and anything else. He talked about how he remembered that is one thing that really made him try harder in college - so he wouldn't end up like that guy.

So we started thinking about that guy - the apartment complex that he lived in had around 100 units, and his rent (at that time) was $400 per month. That comes to a measly $40,000 per month gross income. Not bad.

Then we started thinking about what we are doing now. Both of us are working in a factory, leading large departments, with expectations put on us so large that there is no way we can meet them, and when we inevidibly don't meet them, have to write a report about why.

However, while us 'smart' college kids are fighting in corporate america for $70,000 per year, this landlord is probably still living in the same place, probably still collecting his rent of $40,000 per month, with very little stress.

Boy is that guy stupid or what.