World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder. Calls for lower minimum wage and tax cuts

[Mr Khan]

MrBubbles said:
well...she makes a couple valid points. often its the poorest who smoke and drink the most, who would be much better off if they didnt smoke and drink. its amazing how many people on welfare can manage to spend one to two hundred dollars a month on cigarettes.

i assume this "lady" has some business sense at least. she inherited the company and it was losing money at the time. the prices did shoot up in her favour, but i gather it takes some competency to run such a business. it doesnt make it not immensely hypocritical to tell people to work harder when you yourself had such a leg up as inheriting a very large mining company, of course :P

If you feel like you have no future, you're going to indulge for today. It's quicker to get satisfaction from a bottle of jack daniels than it is from a prosperous small business (and with far more guarantees on the jack daniels route, whereas so much of success is luck anyway)

Things like this make me want to commit violent acts, honestly. Rich folk who inherited mineral wealth talking down to me while sitting around on their high horses and building the system that is making sure that i have no future. If things continue as they are, she'll face the mob one day, and all the condescencion in the world won't save her.