Wealth Inequality is Fantastic News to Kevin O'Leary

[rdubwiley]

[The Blue Flower]

1. So feeding your family isn't motivation enough?

I'd like to reach through the screen and slap this guy upside the head.

[tecelote]

2. He's Absolutely Right!

It's great that you can raise yourself up.

However, he should realize that this opportunity is in trouble since fewer and fewer people are able to achieve it. That is the problem.

[Phlem]

3. RIIIIGHT........

cause that kid in Africa, Iraq, ....etc has the same opportunities that we in the United states *used* to have. For a "successful" person, he sure is stupid, or maybe he's doing what he does and promote lies.

We can all be millionaires! Each and every one of us in the world! All we need to do is pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and the magic happens and *poof* your a millionaire.

A world full of millionaires and billionaires, yeay, yeay, yup, yup, yes, yes, it's just that simple.

Fuck inflation, everything will stay the same price so you can take advantage of your new found prestige!

pos

-P

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. This is a prime example of what I've been saying for years....

This idiot KNOWS he's an idiot because he's met people smarter than him. A LOT OF THEM.

He also really BELIEVES that old chestnut "If you're so smart why aren't you rich?" so why aren't those smart people rich like him? Oh! They must not be working hard enough! That's it!

Did I mention this guy is an idiot?

[JDPriestly]

5. So, he wants a society without teachers and store clerks and warehouse workers and

restaurant workers and general practitioners and nurses, etc.?

People in those jobs and professions work very hard, but they will never become millionaires much less multi-billionaires. Your plumber, your car mechanic, not the owners of the plumbing company or your car dealer, but the guy who comes to your house and fixes your pipes, the guy who balances the wheels on your car, will never join the richest 85 people on earth. It's mathematically impossible for that many people to be among the richest 85 people on earth.

This man makes no sense. I think he is just pretending to hold his opinion. It is completely impossible for everyone or anyone to become rich in the US.

Luck plays a big role. Luck of birth plays a huge role.

[fasttense]

6. Some of the stupidest people I know are rich.

Behind every great fortune is a great crime. Even if the rich themselves are not criminals, they use a criminal system to get their wealth. I honestly believe the inheritance of wealth is what ensures that man remains as stupid as he is.

Just look at W. He is a drug addict. If he was a middle class person he would be in a gutter somewhere. But instead he actually got a woman to marry him and gave birth to more stupid people. And he was our president. The stupidest man in the world was our president. Think about it. Wealth is a crutch that supports idiocy.

[panfluteman]

7. W's Idiocy: How Much of it Was Real, and How Much Was Fake?

I think that it's a pretty good bet that in general, W had some pretty big flaws in both his intelligence and his character that a less fortunate set of birth circumstances would not have been so forgiving of. But how much of his apparent idiocy, as it was played out on the evening news, and upon the world stage, was real, and how much of it was simply an act? To such a large degree, he seemed to be the simple but good natured puppet or "front man" for others, like VP Cheney, who were really pulling the strings. And how much of W's public persona was studied or rehearsed in a shrewd, calculated manner to make himself more likeable, and to make the American public, who are not too bright or well educated themselves, more tolerant and forgiving of him as he, and the people behind him, perpetrated their monstrous and grievous crimes against humanity?

[Phlem]

9. Hard to say, I thought the Paraguay was about just the Aquifer

Then I would be tempted to say he played a good chimp, but it turns on there's gas there too.

Just a link to the general story, not saying it's 100% factual but I've seen this same information at plenty of other places:

http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/fraud/gw_bush_ghw_bush/news.php?q=1291226489

I say there are no limits to greed and power for some people, and even some of the simplest of us can be ingenious when we want something bad enough.



-p

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Let's apply math to Kevin O'Leary while we look for his mother's cow...

Should the vast disparity (exponentially growing) be due to a sudden loss of "desire" to work your way up the ladder, the inequality spike at the high end never would have happened this fast.

It would be easy to look at the "85" and trace how they advanced their net worth so fast. Was it by the same "ladder"?

3.5 billion people's inquiring minds want to know, Kev… but as for myself, who have to work like hell to stay in the middle in the hindsight of my 401k's getting robbed, I just want you to go fuck yourself.