{"podcast":{"title":"How Money Works","slug":"how-money-works-7289568","podcast_index_feed_id":7289568,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/PODAGEN6866689826","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1672d13e-0723-11f0-b46c-3fa26b71332f/image/b16c0074bb9aa03dd005f71d9fa14eb4.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"How Money Works","episode_count":166,"summary":"Follow to learn How Money Works. Find How Money Works on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks Disclaimer: This podcast is an independently produced audio adaptation of content originally created by How Money Works. It was developed by a fan who values the channel’s clear and engaging approach to financial education, with the goal of making that knowledge more accessible in a hands-free, audio format. This is not an official production of How Money Works, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the channel. All rights to the original video content remain with How Money Works. For any concerns, inquiries, or content-related requests, please feel free to reach out.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T16:18:48.862277+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-money-works-7289568"},"episode":{"title":"How American Generals Are Being Paid Millions To Serve Foreign Governments - How Money Works | How Money Works","slug":"how-american-generals-are-being-paid-millions-to-serve-foreign-governments-how-money-works-how-money-works","published_at":"2026-07-06T09:18:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-money-works-7289568/how-american-generals-are-being-paid-millions-to-serve-foreign-governments-how-money-works-how-money-works","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-money-works-7289568","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PODAGEN7139090265.mp3?updated=1778655924","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PODAGEN7139090265.mp3?updated=1778655924","summary":"How American Generals Are Being Paid Millions To Serve Foreign Governments - How Money Works Upgrade the way you learn with Brilliant! To get started for FREE go to http://www.brilliant.org/howmoneyworks Sign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 Washington Post Investigation (A Must Read For More Details) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/veterans-us-foreign-jobs-saudi-arabia/ Let’s say you devote your life to military service. You enrol in officer training and work up the ranks until one day you are a general with combat experience in whichever country the States decided had too much oil. American Generals, and Admirals make are O-10 level employees and make a base salary of $203,000 a year, with generous benefits and bonuses for deployment. That’s good money to most people, especially when it continues as a lifetime military pension of $180,000, every single year, for doing nothing, once you have put in your twenty years of service. Service men and women EARN every last cent of this money and people who have dedicated their lives to serving in our armed forces should be looked after, the system is much better at looking after the top brass than the common soldier, but that’s besides the point. I could never do this job and I respect anybody that can, at least I did until the world started learning about what they do after their career comes to an end (or just get’s started depending on how you look at it) The retirement benefits of a military general should be good enough for anybody to live of off, but some don’t see it this way. Some think that Generals are basically chief executives of large organisations with tens of thousands of employees, handling billions of dollars, and working on the most challenging projects in t…","meta_description":"How American Generals Are Being Paid Millions To Serve Foreign Governments - How Money Works Upgrade the way you learn with Brilliant! To get started for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1004,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-money-works-7289568/episodes/how-american-generals-are-being-paid-millions-to-serve-foreign-governments-how-money-works-how-money-works/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-money-works-7289568/how-american-generals-are-being-paid-millions-to-serve-foreign-governments-how-money-works-how-money-works.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}