Twenty-Three Years Later

What kind of job do you suppose Ferris Bueller would have today?
   We know what's happened with Matthew Broderick, and, sadly, John Hughes, but I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the character Ferris, the guy who could pull almost anything off, who saw what he wanted and went for it, and authorities be damned. He knows how to fake illness, he knows how to convince people to steal a car and throw a parade, he seems to have little regard for anyone but himself or for anything other than his own satisfaction. Sounds like a sociopath to me.
   So...if Ferris was a sophomore in the Spring of 1986, he would have graduated high school in 1988. Which means he would have graduated college in 1992, assuming he didn't cheat his way into getting a diploma sooner, or discover pot and the local community college's 8-year program. A college diploma in 1992 would have put him in the work force just in time to catch the first wave of the dot-com boom. I imagine he would have ridden the boom, getting other people to risk their money for him as he built a company that didn't really make anything or do anything. Until the bubble burst, at which time he would have already cashed out, selling his do-nothing internet company to investors who didn't know any better.
   Then, in the early 2000s, he would have had his dot-com fortune to play with, and he probably would have gotten into the housing bubble - old habits die hard, you know. He would have done the same thing, conscience-less trading in other people's dreams of home ownership all to benefit himself. Then he would have cashed out, but not before back-dating stock sales and totally destroying the landscape of American finance with his greed and incompetence.
   So I'm thinking Ferris Bueller would have been a combination of Mark Cuban and Angelo Mozilo. Yeah, scary. And what kind of job would he have today? Given those two choices, he'd either be a pariah NBA owner under investigation for insider trading, or a pariah former CEO under investigation for insider trading. Either way he'd have more money than you or I. Bastard.