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'Drink Less, Work More', Billionaire Tells Non-Rich
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I'll take one for the team for 400k. So we can buy that GAF house in Michigan.
victreeb3l
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unless she has significantly contributed to her familys wealth, she should shut the fuck up
Like the hat?
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I'd rather drink more, socialize more, and live comfortably.
Zombie James
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Don't be like the lazy assholes she is talking about.
Obviously you would have to put in a few years. She is not going to give away her hard inherited money away for a few minutes of pleasure.
It has been awhile since I took Economics but I believe in the US something like 95% of businesses go out of business within the first 5 years.
Lets not oversimplify how easy it is to become rich. This is not the Republican Convention, this is a videogame forum. We only stretch the truth about what console or smartphone we like.
Deified Data
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The Bookerman
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Did she work her ass off to earn that money? I doubt it. God.
Mengy
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They don't hate the poor, they just can't relate to the poor. It's why so many of them offer insipid advice like this lady here is. She has never been poor or even close to it, it's a foreign concept to her, so when she hears of poor people complaining she simply can't understand what all the noise is about. Mitt Romney has a similar problem, he has real issues relating to non-millionaires.
The Technomancer
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Its a conflation of the idea that anyone can be rich with the idea that everyone can be rich. It also usually comes along with a belief that people's success is determined entirely by their intrinsic talent and two equally talented individuals have equal probabilities at success regardless of circumstances
Steve Youngblood
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I always chuckle a bit at sentiments like this. Yes, her nation's decline. Obviously, it falls on her to speak passionately about this issue given the colossal impact she herself must be feeling due to these hard economic times.
Rocket Scientist
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAno.
Buddha Beam
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I think I'd rather just sleep with and marry a rich heiress and take all their money in the divorce 9 months later.
SouthernDragon
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She obviously didn't, considering the current size of it.
waxer
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True but she is referencing a certain type of person. Being in the mining industry I imagine she is referencing the behaviour of a stereotypical miner. Working out in the middle of nowhere and because they earn really good money blowing chunks of it on woman and alcohol. A friend of mine used to work in an ausie mine earning good money but saved fuck all. He worked hard and played hard.
Not all people are like that and it isn't the right thing to say but I can definitely see how she might jump to that conclusion.
Another case is an ex employee who smokes to much weed and drinks a lot. Lives in a really crappy house which they rent. Possessions tv couches car beds etc are all old and shit. Lives week to week strugling to pay bills. That's on two incomes. My brother on half their money has same number of kids a nice house new LCD tvs two nice cars that don't break down and savings on the rise.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Minimum wage should be lowered?
Environmental rules relaxed?
Taxes should fall?
Fuck all of that shit.
Environmental rules relaxed?
Taxes should fall?
Fuck all of that shit.
Red Blaster
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Lets beat him up and take his stuff
wow
B-but Republicans told me that if I work hard, I can be rich too!
Being born is hard, yo!
Anyone who has read the book would know that all the super geniuses would welcome tilling the soil themselves. Even in their little hideaway they have people willingly doing all the blue collar work like track laying themselves and relishing the opportunity, and of course they're practically all in the top tier of physical attributes as well as mental. They would till the land with their angular features.
I'm talking specifically about starting up a business online, not a real life business.
My friend used to run a surfboard racks store - it cost him about $10 to register a domain and he used Shopify.com to host it for about $35 a month. He wrote a bunch of articles about surfboard racks on a blog and put adverts on the blog linking to his store. Within 3-4 months, he was pulling in somewhere in the region of $3-4k revenue per month with about 30-40% of it being profit. He sold the site a few months ago for $6,900 - https://flippa.com/2740856-established-niche-branded-surf-shops-over-65k-high-season-coming-up. He took most of his profit from the surfboard racks store and re-invested it into new web properties. He's raking in the cash nowadays.
Had it failed.. So what? It cost him so little to set it up in the first place.
The internet has opened up so many opportunities for business that weren't around ten years ago. Jump on the bandwagon now and exploit it now while you can.. It's the smart thing to do.
What is in that picture that would contradict that sentiment?
Just gotta inherit a mining company, it's not that hard when you put your mind to it. Then you can get to work sneering at the poor, lobbying for a shittier society.
out0v0rder
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i tell this to my roommate all the time.
Judging from her picture, she's eaten their cake.
freenudemacusers
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1, my penis has no concept of wealth. 2, there are plenty of hot heiresses out there.
Indeed.
You can always find a good balance between working hard and enjoying life.
Deified Data
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lol, yeah, I read it. They most certainly would take pleasure in it, if only to spite the unwashed masses they left behind. Point being, no one is actually like that. At least not a large enough collective of people to form a functional society.
les papillons sexuels
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yeah, but you to have money to do it.
Ivanka Trump = all day, every day
Deified Data
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It's not who is saying it, or even how. It's the fact that it's absolutely not true across the board. At least not in the black and white terms she puts it in. By her logic, the term "working poor" must be some mysterious paradox.
Basically Reducing employee numbers, longer hours, and pay that hasn't increased proportionately with cost of living Keeps most people trapped scrapping by. For the shareholders and higher ups it's awesome though.
So what does she actually do that earns her 19 billion? Like did she build that herself? Oh wait, this worthless fuck just inherited everything... never mind
love how all the self made billionaires who actually had to work for it are all fairly humble and don't usually come off selfish
love how all the self made billionaires who actually had to work for it are all fairly humble and don't usually come off selfish
SquiddyCracker
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The Technomancer
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But we won't, see, because there will always be lazy people to do the menial labor for the ubermensch
Alligatorjandro
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the thousandaires
Atramental
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Imaginary robots.
les papillons sexuels
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a non rich person would never say it. A person who barely makes a living, works as hard as they can to provide for their family, and still barely makes enough to drink, doesn't need to be told they should work harder. It's the people who sit on most of the wealth, drinking and doing nothing that should be working harder, but no one does. Tax these fuckers so they can learn what it means to work.
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