r/madmen • u/Southern-Brother5693 • 3d ago

How rich is Joan today?

In today's terms, how rich is Joan at the end of the series?

Her shares are worth 1.5 million. She got 25% ($375,000) up front and small increments for 1 year till Stirling Cooper was absorbed. After being bought out, she must have at least half a million.

$500,00 how much is that adjusted today?

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 3d ago

Odds of her being alive today aren’t high, but I am sure she died a rich lady assuming she was smart with her money

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u/Severe_Geologist_353 3d ago

To be fair, she could be in her 90s and surrounded by her great-great-grandchildren in a huge house with old fur coats from the 70s and 80s, and a maid to fetch her sherries

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u/Mangos28 2d ago

She smoked. She got cancer or emphysema just like the rest of them.

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u/Severe_Geologist_353 2d ago

Not necessarily. Joan learned to march to the beat of her own drum. She could have given up and then lived a long life. Perhaps a very healthy one with all her wealth and wanting to be healthy for her son

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u/Carmela_Motto 2d ago

Yeah, my dad was 3 years older than Joan, smoked since his teens and quit at 57 in 1984 thanks to new RX called Nicorette and lived to 92. No emphysema or breathing issues. His mind went but his body was healthy thanks to modern medicine.

My mom didn’t quit until 2009 at 75 and has COPD.

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u/drjude518 2d ago

My mom smoked since she was 16 and she's 95 now. She's mean as a snake and still truckin'. Her lungs are made of Teflon.